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
recovery point
archiving 177
assigning a drive letter to 163
checking for viruses 163
checking integrity of 80, 90, 98
choosing options for 80, 98, 181
cleaning up old 174
copying to CD or DVD 177
creating a specific type 118
creating cold manually 285
creating hot 287
creating offline 285
creating online 287
creating warm automatically 286
deleting sets 175
encrypting 89
exploring 163
independent 76
limiting number of sets 80
mounting 163–164
mounting from Windows Explorer 165
Offsite Copy 100
one time conversion to virtual disk 194
opening a specific 269
opening files and folders stored in 213
opening files within 165
opening up hard disk space 177
protecting with password 88, 99, 183
recovering files using 209
scheduling conversion to virtual disk format 183
setting compression levels 92
types, defined 76
unmounting as a drive letter 167
using a search engine to find 277
verifying 80, 98
verifying after creation 90
viewing properties of drive from Symantec
System Recovery Disk 255
viewing properties of drive within 167
viewing properties of mounted 167
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
Recovery Point Browser
using to open files within recovery points 165
recovery point files, locating 69
Recovery point options 79
recovery point options, Symantec System Recovery
Disk 236
recovery points
copying supported media for storing 71
related drives option 75
remote backup 129
removable media
saving recovery points to 71
splitting recovery points across multiple 71
supported 26
reports, log file 137
requirements, system 23
rescan disks 148
restart agent 139
restore
Exchange, email folders 271
Exchange, email messages 272
Exchange, mailboxes 270
files and folders 274
SharePoint documents 273
Restore Anyware, using 243
rights, granting to domain users on Windows 2003
SP1 servers 135
Run as, change logon using 145
Run Backup Now, about 117
Run Backup With Options feature 118
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schedule, editing backup 126
scripts, running during a backup 83
search engine
enabling support 278
using 167
using for searching recovery points 277
Secondary drive, recovering 213
security
agent 127, 142
allowing or denying permissions 142
giving other users rights to back up 127
granting access to users to back up 142
service
starting, stopping, or restarting agent 139
services
best practices for using 137
using with agent 136
Share Your Ideas 21
SharePoint, restoring documents 273
SmartSector Copying, about 87, 99
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