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
Recovering a secondary drive
If you lose data on a secondary drive, you can use an existing recovery point for that drive to restore the data. A secondary drive is a drive other than the drive on which your operating system is installed.
For example, your computer has a D drive and the data is lost. You can restore the D drive back to an earlier date and time.
To recover a drive, you must have a recovery point that includes the drive that you want to recover. If you are not sure, review the Status page to determine what recovery points are available.
Note:
Before you proceed, close any applications and files that are open on the drive that you want to restore.
Warning:
When you recover a drive, the data in the recovery point replaces all of the data on the drive. Any changes that you made to the data on a drive after the date of the recovery point you use to recover it are lost. For example, if you created a new file on the drive after you created the recovery point, the new file is not recovered.
To recover a secondary drive
- On the Tasks menu, click Recover My Computer.
- Select a recovery point.
Recover My Computer options when you view recovery points by Date
View by - Date
Displays all of the discovered recovery points in the order in which they were created.
Date
Lets you select an alternate date by using the drop-down calendar. Use the calendar if no recovery points are discovered and displayed in the table.
View all recovery points
Lets you view all recovery points that are available.
Recover My Computer options when you view recovery points by File name
View by - File name
Views the recovery points by their file name.
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-PartitionNo\Filename.v2iorDiskNo-PartitionNo\Filename.iv2iFor example, if the hidden drive location is on Disk 2 and Partition 3, you must enter 2-3\file.v2i. Where 2 is the disk number and 3 is the partition number.
Browse
Lets you browse to a path that contains a recovery point.
For example, you can browse for a recovery point (.v2i) or incremental recovery point (.iv2i) file on an external (USB) drive. Or, you can browse to a network location, removable media, or Microsoft OneDrive for Business location.
Browse for OpenStorage Destination
Lets you browse an OpenStorage storage destination that you want to use for restoring the recovery points.
User name
Specifies the user name if you specify a recovery point file name that is located in a network path.
Password
Specifies the password to a network path.
Recover My Computer options when you view recovery points by System
View by - System
Uses the current system index file that is located in the recovery point storage location. The system index file displays a list of all of the drives on your computer and any associated recovery points from which you can select.
The use of a system index file reduces the time it takes to convert multiple recovery points. When a recovery point is created, a system index file is saved with it. The system index file contains a list of the most recent recovery points, which includes the original drive location of each recovery point.
Date
Lets you select an alternate date of a system index file date by using the drop-down calendar. Use the calendar if no recovery points are discovered and displayed in the table.
Use latest recovery points for this computer
Restores the most recent recovery points that exist in the recovery point storage location on your computer.
The list of drives, source files (.v2i and .iv2i files), and dates comes from the most current system index file (.sv2i).
Use alternate system index (.sv2i) file
Restores the recovery points that exist on another computer.
Browse to and select the .sv2i file for the desired system
Specifies a path to a system index file (.sv2i) file that resides elsewhere, such as a network location.
If you selected a system index file that is stored on a network, you are prompted for your network credentials.
See Rules for network credentials.
If the recovery point is located in a hidden drive, you must specify the location of the hidden drive in the following format:
DiskNo-PartitionNo\Filename.sv2iFor example, if the hidden drive location is on Disk 2 and Partition 3, you must enter 2-3\file.sv2i. Where 2 is the disk number and 3 is the partition number.
Browse
Lets you browse to a path that contains a system index file.
For example, you can browse to an external (USB) drive, a network location, or to removable media to select a system index file.
You can browse a Microsoft OneDrive location for your recovery point.
Browse for OpenStorage Destination
Lets you browse an OpenStorage storage destination that you want to use for restoring the recovery points.
Drives
Lets you select the drives with the recovery points that you want to restore based on the selected system index file.
- Click Recover Now.
- Click OK.
- Click Yes.
See Recovering a drive.