2011 (Windows)
Table Of Contents
- Symantec™ System Recovery 2011 User's Guide
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Introducing Symantec™ System Recovery 2011
- 2. Installing Symantec System Recovery
- 3. Ensuring the recovery of your computer
- 4. Getting Started
- How to use Symantec System Recovery
- Starting Symantec System Recovery
- Configuring Symantec System Recovery default options
- Setting up general backup options
- Adjusting the effect of a backup on computer performance
- About enabling network throttling
- Adjusting default tray icon settings
- About managing file types and file extensions
- About using unique names for external drives
- Configuring default FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy
- Logging Symantec System Recovery messages
- Enabling email notifications for product (event) messages
- Setting up your first backup using Easy Setup
- Hiding or showing the Advanced page
- 5. Best practices for backing up your data
- 6. Backing up entire drives
- About defining a drive-based backup
- Defining a drive-based backup
- Drives options
- Related drives options
- Recovery point type options
- Backup destination options
- Offsite Copy Settings options
- Recovery point options
- Advanced Scheduling options
- About files that are excluded from drive-based backups
- About network credentials
- About running command files during a backup
- Command files options
- Advanced options for drive-based backups
- Backup time options
- Compression levels for recovery points
- Running a one-time backup from Symantec System Recovery
- About running a one-time backup from Symantec System Recovery Disk
- About Offsite Copy
- How Offsite Copy works
- 7. Backing up files and folders
- 8. 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
- Editing backup settings
- Enabling event-triggered backups
- Editing a backup schedule
- Turning off a backup job
- Deleting backup jobs
- Adding users who can back up your computer
- Configuring access rights for users or groups
- 9. Backing up remote computers from your computer
- 10. Monitoring the status of your backups
- About monitoring backups
- About the icons on the Home page
- About the icons on the Status page
- Configuring Symantec System Recovery to send SNMP traps
- About 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
- 11. Exploring the contents of a recovery point
- 12. Managing backup destinations
- About backup destinations
- About backup methods
- Cleaning up old recovery points
- Deleting a recovery point set
- Deleting recovery points within a set
- Making copies of recovery points
- 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
- About managing file and folder backup data
- Automating the management of backup data
- Moving your backup destination
- 13. 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 by using a recovery point
- About opening files and folders stored in a recovery point
- About finding the files or folders you want
- Recovering a secondary drive
- Customizing the recovery of a drive
- About restoring a computer from a remote location by using LightsOut Restore
- 14. Recovering a computer
- About recovering a computer
- Booting a computer by using the Symantec 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
- About recovering to a computer with different hardware
- Recovering files and folders by using Symantec System Recovery Disk
- Exploring files and folders on your computer by using Symantec System Recovery Disk
- About using the networking tools in Symantec System Recovery Disk
- Viewing the properties of a recovery point
- Viewing the properties of a drive within a recovery point
- About the Support Utilities
- 15. Copying a hard drive
- 16. Using the Symantec System Recovery Granular Restore Option
- About the Symantec System Recovery Granular Restore Option
- Best practices when you create recovery points for use with the Granular Restore Option
- Starting the Granular Restore Option
- What you can do with the Granular Restore Option
- Opening a specific recovery point
- Restoring a mailbox
- Restoring an email folder
- Restoring an email message
- Restoring SharePoint documents
- Restoring files and folders
- A. Using a search engine to search recovery points
- B. Backing up databases using Symantec System Recovery
- C. Backing up Active Directory
- D. Backing up Microsoft virtual environments
- E. Using Symantec System Recovery 2011 and Windows Server 2008 Core
- Index
Note: If you use Microsoft's BitLocker Drive Encryption to encrypt the data on a
drive, be aware that LightsOut Restore does not work on encrypted drives. You
must turn off BitLocker and then decrypt the drive before you can use LightsOut
Restore on it.
■ Install a licensed version of Symantec pcAnywhere on a central computer that
you use for management (for example, a help desk computer).
■ Ensure that all of your servers can be managed remotely through a hardware
device such as RILO or DRAC.
■ Install Symantec System Recovery on the servers that you want to protect,
and then define and run backups to create recovery points.
■ Run the SetUpLightsOutRestore wizard to install a custom Symantec System
Recovery Disk directly to the computer's local file system.
The wizard creates an entry in the Windows boot menu that can be used to
boot into Symantec System Recovery Disk .
Note: LightsOut Restore works only on the primary operating system. It does
not work on multiple-boot computers (for example, a computer that starts
multiple operating systems from the same partition). LightsOut Restore is
accessible only from the boot menu. If the file system becomes corrupt and
you cannot access the boot menu, you must boot the computer from the
Symantec System Recovery Disk.
Note: The LightsOut Restore feature requires at least 1 GB of memory to run.
■ Use the RILO or the DRAC device to connect to the remote server so you can
recover a file or system from a remote location. Then you can turn on the
system or restart it.
■ Open the boot menu as the remote server starts, and then select the name that
you have given to Symantec System Recovery Disk.
The remote server boots into Symantec System Recovery Disk and the
connection through RILO or DRAC is lost. If you configured it during the Set
Up LightsOut Restore wizard, a pcAnywhere thin host automatically starts.
■ Use Symantec pcAnywhere to connect to the pcAnywhere thin host that waits
on the remote server.
■ Use Symantec System Recovery Disk to restore individual files, or entire drives
by way of pcAnywhere.
See “Configuring LightsOut Restore” on page 222.
221Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
About restoring a computer from a remote location by using LightsOut Restore