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
Table 16-1
Granular Restore Option tasks
More informationTask
See
“Restoring a mailbox” on page 270.
See “Restoring an email folder” on page 271.
See “Restoring an email message”
on page 272.
■ Restore Exchange mail.
■ Open a specific recovery point.
■ Restore a mailbox.
■ Restore an email folder.
■ Restore or forward an email message.
See “Restoring SharePoint documents”
on page 273.
■ Restore SharePoint documents.
■ Open a specific recovery point.
■ Search or browse for a lost document.
■ Restore a document.
See
“Restoring files and folders” on page 274.■ Restore unstructured files and folders.
■ Open one or more recovery points.
■ Search or browse for a lost file or
folder.
■ Restore lost files and folders.
■ Restore a version of a file.
See
“About the Symantec System Recovery Granular Restore Option” on page 266.
Opening a specific recovery point
You open recovery points so you can restore mailboxes, email folders and messages,
SharePoint documents, and files and folders.
To open a specific recovery point
1
On the View menu, click Tools.
2
Click Run Granular Restore Option.
3
In the Open Recovery Points dialog box, select the option you want and then
click OK.
See
“Open Recovery Points options” on page 270.
4
You can change the backup date that you view by selecting a different date
in the upper right-hand corner.
See
“What you can do with the Granular Restore Option” on page 268.
269Using the Symantec System Recovery Granular Restore Option
Opening a specific recovery point