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
Icons on the Veritas System Recovery Monitor console
The following table describes the icons on the Veritas System Recovery Monitor console:
Table: About the Veritas System Recovery Monitor console icons
Icon | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | View Options | Lists shortcuts to access most of the commonly used features of Veritas System Recovery Monitor application, such as add computer, switch view, and remove computer. |
 | Add new computer (Ctrl + N) | Adds a remote computer to the Computer List that displays in the Backup Status pane. |
 | Import Computers (Ctrl + I) | Imports a text file to add multiple remote computers. This text file contains the IP addresses of the remote computers. |
 | Export (Ctrl + X) | Exports the Protection Status report for the selected computers on the Veritas System Recovery Monitor console in an HTML or in a CSV format. |
 | Application settings (Ctrl + S) | Opens the Settings pane and configure the Veritas System Recovery Monitor default options. See Configuring Veritas System Recovery Monitor default options. |
 | Switch View (Ctrl + T) | Switches between the Category view and All Computers view. |
 | Help (F1) | Accesses the Veritas System Recovery Monitor's Help system. |
 | Exit (Alt + F4) | Closes the Veritas System Recovery Monitor console. |
 | Search | Searches a remote computer from the Computer List. |
At Risk | Indicates that no drive-based backup policy has been created for the computers that appear in the Computer List. The drives, files, or folders of these computers are unprotected and cannot be recovered and are at risk. | |
 | Need Attention | Indicates that:
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 | Unknown | Indicates that the backup protection status of the computers in the Computer List is not known. This status may appear if the Veritas System Recovery Monitor cannot connect to the remote computer due to the following issues:
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 | Backed up | Indicates that a drive-based backup policy was created and it runs on a regular basis. All the drives, files, and folders of the remote computers are protected and can be recovered, if necessary. |
 | Computer Details | Opens the Computer Details pane. The Computer Details pane displays a summary of the backup protection status for the selected remote computer. See Viewing the backup protection status of a remote computer. |
  | Expand / Collapse | Expands or Collapses the Status pane, which displays the Category view of the remote computers in the Computer List. |
 | Remove Computer (Delete) | Removes a remote computer from the Computer List. |
 | Refresh Protection Status (Ctrl + R) | Manually refresh the Backup Status pane to see the latest backup protection status for the Computer List. You can also select an individual computer from the Computer List and select refresh to see the latest backup protection status. |
 | Edit Computer (Ctrl + E) | Modifies the logon credentials for the remote computers. See Modifying the logon credentials for the remote computers. |
 | Next Synchronization Time | Displays the time in minutes that remains for the next automatic refresh. |
See Configuring Veritas System Recovery Monitor default options.