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
installation (continued)
steps 29
supported file systems 26
supported removable media 26
system requirements 23
L
license product 31
LightsOut Restore
about 220
configuring or reconfiguring 222
setting up and using 220
LiveUpdate, using 33
log file
checking 137
using event 161
logs, truncate transaction 87
M
mail, restoring 270
mapping drive from Symantec System Recovery
Disk 252
master boot, restoring 238, 242
message stores
identifying 268
protecting 268
MIB, about 156
Microsoft Virtual Disk 194
Microsoft Virtual Disk (.vhd) 183
Microsoft virtual hard disks, support for 291
N
network credentials, rules when supplying 83
network drive, how to map 252
network services
configuring connection settings 253
getting a static IP address 253
starting in Symantec System Recovery Disk 249
using in Symantec System Recovery Disk 249
network, adjusting throttling during backup 49
non-VSS-aware databases, back up 284
NTbackup, backing up with 289
O
Offsite Copy
about 100
assigning unique names to external drives for
use with 53
Offsite Copy (continued)
copying recovery points 100
Offsite Copy Settings options 78
One Time Backup from Windows 93
operating system, backing up computers with
multiple 71
Options, configuring defaults 45
original disk signature, recovering 237, 242
P
P2V
one time 194
scheduling 183
virtual conversion job, deleting 193
virtual conversion job, editing 193
virtual conversion job, run now 192
virtual conversion job, viewing progress 192
virtual conversion job, viewing properties 192
pagefile.sys 82
pcAnywhere thin host, using to recover remotely 250
performance during backup, adjusting for network 49
permissions, allowing other users to back up 127
physical-to-virtual
job, deleting 193
job, editing 193
job, run now 192
job, viewing progress 192
job, viewing properties 192
scheduling 183, 194
progress of backup, viewing 91
protection
hard disks 148
protection status 121
push install of agent 131
R
RAM drives, supported 26
recovery point type options 76
recovery
about 207
cancelling 120
computer (C drive) 227
customizing 216
files and folders 207
original disk signature 237, 242
restoring files and folders 207
recovery actions, setting up when agent does not
start 140
Index302