Veritas™ System Recovery 21 User's Guide
- Introducing Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- System requirements for Veritas System Recovery
- Supported file systems, disk types, disk partition schemes, and removable media
- Feature availability in Veritas System Recovery
- About the trial version of Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- Uninstalling Veritas System Recovery
- System requirements for Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Installing Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Ensuring the recovery of your computer
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Welcome Panel
- Creation Options
- Download and install Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)
- Languages Options
- Veritas System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination Options
- Licensed Features Options
- Storage and Network Drivers Options
- Startup Options
- Network Options
- Setup LightsOut Restore Options
- Customizing an existing Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About restoring a computer from a remote location by using LightsOut Restore
- Testing the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Getting Started
- How to use Veritas System Recovery
- Starting Veritas System Recovery
- Configuring Veritas System Recovery default options
- Setting up default general backup options
- Improving your computer's performance during a backup
- Enabling network throttling
- Setting default options for the Windows notification area
- File types and file extension
- Removing or changing the unique name for an external drive
- Configuring default FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy
- Logging Veritas System Recovery messages
- Enabling email notifications for product (event) messages
- Setting up your first backup using Easy Setup
- Home page
- Status page
- Tasks page
- Tools page
- Advanced page
- Using Veritas System Recovery RESTful Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- Best practices for backing up your data
- Backing up entire drives
- Backing up files and folders
- Running and managing backup jobs
- Running an existing backup job immediately
- Adjusting the speed of a backup
- Stopping a backup or a recovery task
- Verifying that a backup is successful
- Viewing the properties of a backup job
- Editing backup settings
- Enabling event-triggered backups
- Editing a backup schedule
- Disabling or enabling a backup job
- Deleting backup jobs
- Adding users who can back up your computer
- Configuring access rights for users or groups
- Backing up remote computers from your computer
- Monitoring the status of your backups
- About monitoring backups
- Icons on the Home page
- Icons on the Status page
- Configuring Veritas System Recovery to send SNMP traps
- Customizing the status reporting of a drive (or file and folder backups)
- Viewing drive details
- Improving the protection level of a drive
- About using event log information to troubleshoot problems
- Monitoring the backup status of remote computers using Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- About Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Starting Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Icons on the Veritas System Recovery Monitor console
- Configuring Veritas System Recovery Monitor default options
- Adding a remote computer to the Computer List
- Modifying the logon credentials for the remote computers
- Removing a remote computer from the Computer List
- Viewing the backup protection status of a remote computer
- Viewing the Protection Status report
- Exploring the contents of a recovery point
- Managing backup destinations
- About backup destinations
- Differences between drive-based backups and file and folder backups
- Cleaning up old recovery points
- Deleting a recovery point set
- Deleting recovery points within a recovery point set
- Copying recovery points
- About managing file and folder backup data
- Automating the management of backup data
- Moving your backup destination
- About support of OneDrive for Business
- Managing virtual conversions
- Defining a virtual conversion job
- Running an existing virtual conversion job immediately
- Viewing the properties of a virtual conversion job
- Viewing the progress of a virtual conversion job
- Editing a virtual conversion job
- Deleting a virtual conversion job
- Running a one-time conversion of a physical recovery point to a virtual disk
- Managing cloud storage
- Direct to cloud
- Downloading OpenStorage Files
- How Offsite Copy works for cloud storage
- About creation of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in Amazon from Veritas System Recovery backups
- About S3-Compatible Cloud Storage
- About Veritas System Recovery supporting Veritas Access
- About the Cloud Instance Creator Utility
- Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
- About recovering lost data
- Recovering files and folders by using file and folder backup data
- Recovering files and folders
- Recovering a secondary drive
- Recovering a drive
- Exploring files and folders on your computer by using Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Recovering files and folders by using Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Recovering a computer
- About recovering a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-based computer
- Booting a computer by using the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Preparing to recover a computer by checking the hard disk for errors
- Recovering a computer
- Recovering a computer from a virtual disk file
- Recovering a computer with different hardware
- About using the networking tools in Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Viewing the properties of a recovery point in the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Viewing the properties of a drive within a recovery point in the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About the Support Utilities
- Copying a hard drive
- Using the Veritas System Recovery Granular Restore Option
- About the Veritas System Recovery Granular Restore Option
- Best practices when you create recovery points for use with the Granular Restore Option
- Starting the Granular Restore Option
- Starting Granular Restore Option and opening a specific recovery point
- Restoring a Microsoft Exchange mailbox
- Restoring a Microsoft Exchange email folder
- Restoring a Microsoft Exchange email message
- Restoring files and folders using Granular Restore Option
- Appendix A. Backing up databases using Veritas System Recovery
- Appendix B. Backing up Active Directory
- Appendix C. Backing up Microsoft virtual environments
- Appendix D. Using Veritas System Recovery 21 and Windows Server Core
- Index
Opening and restoring files within a recovery point browser
Using the Recovery Point Browser, you can open files within a recovery point. The file opens in the program that is associated with that file type. You can also restore files by saving them using the application that is associated with them. Or, you can restore files by using the option in the Recovery Point Browser.
If the file type is not associated with a program, the Microsoft Open With dialog box is displayed. You can then select the correct program for opening the file.
Note:
In the Recovery Point Browser, you cannot view encrypted file system (EFS) NTFS volumes.
To open and restore files within a recovery point
- On the Tools page, click Run Recovery Point Browser.
- In the Select Recovery Point panel, select a recovery point to restore, and then click OK.
Recovery Point options by Date
View recovery points by - Date
Displays all discovered recovery points in the order that they are created. If no recovery points are discovered, the table is empty. In such cases, you can search all local drives on the computer or browse to find a recovery point.
Select source folder
Lets you view a list of all the available recovery points that exist on your computer's local drives or on a specific drive.
Browse
Locates a recovery point on a local drive or a network folder.
Select the Show hidden drives check box to see a list of the hidden drives along with the list of the other drives.
You can select a hidden drive as a location where you want to store the recovery points.
The hidden drives are displayed in the following format:
DiskNo-PartitionNo\For example, a hidden drive is displayed as: 2-3\. Where 2 is the disk number and 3 is the partition number.
Note:
By default, this check box is not selected.
OpenStorage Destination
Lets you select an OpenStorage storage destination that you want to use for restoring the recovery points.
Select a recovery point
Lets you select the recovery point to restore.
Recovery point details
Displays additional information about the recovery point that you want to restore.
Recovery Point options by Filename
View recovery points by - File name
Lets you view recovery points by their file name.
Recovery point folder and file name
Specifies a path and a file name of a recovery point.
If the recovery point is located in a hidden drive, you must specify the location of the hidden drive in the following format:
DiskNo-PartitionNoFor example, if the hidden drive location is on Disk 2 and Partition 3, you must enter 2-3. Where 2 is the disk number and 3 is the partition number.
OpenStorage Destination
Lets you select an OpenStorage storage destination that you want to use for restoring the recovery points.
Browse
Locates a recovery point on a local drive or a network folder.
Recovery point details
Displays additional information about the recovery point that you want to restore.
- In the Recovery Point Browser, in the tree panel on the left, select a drive.
- In the right content panel, double-click the folder that contains the file that you want to view.
- Right-click the file that you want to view, and then click View File.
The View File option is grayed out if you select program files with the .exe, .dll, or .com file extensions.
- To restore a file, in the Recovery Point Browser, in the list panel on the right, select one or more files.
- Click Recover Files, and then click Recover to restore them to their original location.
If you are prompted, click Yes, or Yes to All to overwrite the existing (original) files.