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
backup destination
moving 205
understanding how it works 172
Backup destination options 77
backup job, editing advanced options 88
backup status 121
backup storage, about 172
Basic Edition, disabled features in 27
benefits of using Symantec System Recovery 17
best practices 266
best practices, services 137
boot configuration database 75
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cancel the current operation 120
categories, managing file types 50
check computer agent services 136
clustered shared volumes 292
cold backup
about 94
creating manually 285
running one time 95
command files, running during a backup 83
compression levels in recovery point 92
computer
adding to Computer List, local 131
adding to Computer List, remote 130
configuring for CD or DVD booting 229
recovering 35–36, 231
recovering from virtual disk file 238
recovering remotely 250
recovering, about 227
computer agent
services, checking 136
tour 135
Computer List
adding local computers to 131
adding remote computers to 130
configuring agent security 142
conversion job
deleting 193
editing 193
recovery points to virtual disks 183
run now 192
viewing progress 192
viewing properties 192
convert recovery point to virtual disk one time 194
copying a drive 259
create recovery point 80
creating recovery point, options 181
creating recovery points, options 98
credentials, change for agent 145
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databases
backing up non-VSS-aware 284
backing up VSS-aware 283
default options, configuring 45
default settings, changing for the Symantec System
Recovery Agent 138
dependencies, view agent 139
dependencies, viewing agent 141
devices, supported storage 26
different hardware, restoring to 243
disable a backup 126
disabled features 26
disk media, supported 26
disks, rescanning 148
documents, restoring 273
domain controllers, protecting using Symantec
System Recovery 289
domain users, granting rights on Windows 2003 SP1
servers
135
drive
copying 259
identifying for backup 267
improving protection level of 158
protecting 148
unmounting recovery point 167
viewing details of 158
viewing properties from within Symantec
System Recovery Disk 256
viewing within recovery point 167
drive letter, assigning to a recovery point 163
drive recovery options 218
drive-based backup
about 64, 73, 172
defining 74
excluding files from 82
setting advanced options 86
Driver Validation 35–36
drives
backup protection level 148
recovering 207
recovering multiple using system index file 231
dual-boot computers, backing up 71
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