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
E
Easy Setup, defining first backup 60
email notification, setting up to send warnings and
errors 58
email, restoring 271–272
emergency
recovering a computer 231
recovering a computer, about 227
encryption, recovery point 89
error messages, configuring to show or hide 49
errors
setting notification for
warnings:setting up email to send 58
evaluation version, installing or upgrading 28
Event Log
about 161
using to troubleshoot 161
event-triggered backup
enabling 122
enabling ThreatCon Response 124
Events tab, log file history 137
Exchange
protecting 267
restoring a mailbox 270
restoring an email folder 271
restoring an email message 272
expiration of trial version 28
explore computer from Symantec System Recovery
Disk 249
external drive, assigning unique name 53
F
features, disabled in Basic Edition 27
feedback, send 21
file and folder backup
about 64, 107, 173
defining 107
deleting files from 203
excluding folders from 107
recovering using backup data from 208
file and folder backup data
backup destination 69
managing 202
viewing amount of data stored 203
file systems. supported 26
file types
creating new 51
deleting 53
editing 52
file types (continued)
managing 50
file versions, limiting number kept 203
files
deleting from file and folder backup,
manually 203
locating versions of 204
opening from within a recovery point 165
recovering lost or damaged 207
files and folders
opening when stored in a recovery point 213
recovering lost or damaged 207
recovering using Symantec System Recovery
Disk 246
restoring 274
restoring using a recovery point 209
searching for 213
folders
locating versions of 204
recovering lost or damaged 207
G
Google Desktop
configuring backups to support 167
enabling support for 31
setting up support for using 277
using to search for recovery points 277
Granular Restore Option 266
starting 268
H
hard disks
recovering 207
recovering primary 231
rescanning 148
hard drive, copying one to another 261
hot backup 287
defining drive-based 74
running one time 93
hybernate.sys 82
Hyper-V machines, support for 292
I
independent recovery point 76
installation
after 31
disabled features 26
preparing for 23
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