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
SNMP traps, configuing Symantec System Recovery
to send 155
start agent 139
start, computer Agent services 136
status messages
configuring to show or hide 49
using SNMP traps 155
status reports, customizing per drive 156
stop a backup 120
stop agent 139
stop computer agent services 136
storage groups, identifying and protecting 267
Support Utilities 258
Symantec Backup Exec Retrieve, configuring with
backups 167
Symantec Backup Exec Web Retrieve, using to search
for recovery points
277
Symantec System Recovery
configuring default options 45
getting more information 20
new features 19
restoring with 268
running with different user rights 145
using 43, 268
Symantec System Recovery Agent
changing default settings for 138
deploying over a network 131
installing from product CD, manually 131
setting up recovery actions for 140
starting automatically 138
Symantec System Recovery Disk
about 227
about creating backups from 94
booting into 228
configuring network connection settings 253
creating backups from 95
creating custom SSRD 37
exploring computer while using 249
getting a static IP address 253
mapping drive from 252
networking tools 249
options, LightsOut Restore 224
recovering computer 231
recovering computer from virtual disk file 238
recovering files and folders 246
recovery options 236
scanning hard disk 230
starting 228
Symantec System Recovery Disk (continued)
Support Utilities 258
testing 35–36
troubleshooting 229
viewing drive properties 256
viewing recovery point properties 255
system drive
recovering 35–36
system drive, recovering 35–36
system index file, using to recover multiple
drives 231
system requirements 23
system tray icon
adjusting default settings 49
showing or hiding 49
showing or hiding error messages 49
showing or hiding status messages 49
T
tabs, Events and log file 137
ThreatCon Response, enabling or disabling 124
throttling, adjusting during backup 49
time, elapsed time in Events tab 137
tips for running backups 68
transaction logs, truncate 87
trial version, installing or upgrading 28
troubleshooting, agent 136
truncate transaction logs 87
U
unmount recovery point drives 167
update, automatically with LiveUpdate 33
upgrade, trial version of Symantec System
Recovery 28
users, rights to run Symantec System Recovery 142
V
verify recovery point 90
verify recovery point after creation 150
VHD, attached 75
virtual disk
conversion job, viewing progress 192
conversion job, viewing properties 192
one time conversion of recovery point to 194
recovering computer from a 238
scheduling conversion of recovery point to 183
virtual conversion job, deleting 193
virtual conversion job, editing 193
Index304