Administrator Guide
Dell Data Guardian Recovery
The recovery tool allows:
• Decryption of:
– Dell Data Guardian Protected Oce les with any supported format - Protected Oce Document encryption, including les
identied through Data Classication encryption, or Cloud Service Provider protection.
– File formats listed in the Basic File Protection policy, if enabled.
• Manual escrow of key material
• Ability to check for tampered les
• Ability to force decryption of protected Oce documents where someone tampered with the le's wrapper, for example, the protected
Oce le's cover page in the cloud or on a device that does not have Data Guardian
NOTE:
You can use the Windows Recovery Tool with les created on Mac, mobile, or web portal platforms.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites include:
• Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5.2 running on the endpoint to be recovered.
• The forensic administrator role must be assigned in the Management Console for the administrator performing the recovery.
Perform Data Guardian Recovery
Follow these steps to perform a recovery of Data Guardian's protected Oce documents or Basic File Protection les. You can recover one
computer at a time.
IMPORTANT
:
To avoid losing content in case of corruption, decrypt copies of the les, not the original les.
Perform a Recovery from Windows, a USB Flash Drive, or Network Drive
To perform a recovery:
1 From the Dell installation media, copy RecoveryTools.exe to one of these:
• Computer - Copy the .exe to the computer on which Oce documents will be recovered.
• USB - Copy the .exe to the USB ash drive and run it from the USB ash drive.
• Network drive
IMPORTANT
:
As administrator, be sure to copy only the RecoveryTools.exe and not the installer. The RecoveryTools.exe performs better
if no sweep or decryption is running.
2 Double-click RecoveryTools.exe to launch the recovery tool.
3 On the Data Guardian Recovery Tool window, do one of these:
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