Veritas™ System Recovery 21 User's Guide
- Introducing Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- System requirements for Veritas System Recovery
- Supported file systems, disk types, disk partition schemes, and removable media
- Feature availability in Veritas System Recovery
- About the trial version of Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- Uninstalling Veritas System Recovery
- System requirements for Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Installing Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Ensuring the recovery of your computer
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Welcome Panel
- Creation Options
- Download and install Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)
- Languages Options
- Veritas System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination Options
- Licensed Features Options
- Storage and Network Drivers Options
- Startup Options
- Network Options
- Setup LightsOut Restore Options
- Customizing an existing Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About restoring a computer from a remote location by using LightsOut Restore
- Testing the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Getting Started
- How to use Veritas System Recovery
- Starting Veritas System Recovery
- Configuring Veritas System Recovery default options
- Setting up default general backup options
- Improving your computer's performance during a backup
- Enabling network throttling
- Setting default options for the Windows notification area
- File types and file extension
- Removing or changing the unique name for an external drive
- Configuring default FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy
- Logging Veritas System Recovery messages
- Enabling email notifications for product (event) messages
- Setting up your first backup using Easy Setup
- Home page
- Status page
- Tasks page
- Tools page
- Advanced page
- Using Veritas System Recovery RESTful Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- Best practices for backing up your data
- Backing up entire drives
- Backing up files and folders
- 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
- Viewing the properties of a backup job
- Editing backup settings
- Enabling event-triggered backups
- Editing a backup schedule
- Disabling or enabling a backup job
- Deleting backup jobs
- Adding users who can back up your computer
- Configuring access rights for users or groups
- Backing up remote computers from your computer
- Monitoring the status of your backups
- About monitoring backups
- Icons on the Home page
- Icons on the Status page
- Configuring Veritas System Recovery to send SNMP traps
- 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
- Monitoring the backup status of remote computers using Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- About Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Starting Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Icons on the Veritas System Recovery Monitor console
- Configuring Veritas System Recovery Monitor default options
- Adding a remote computer to the Computer List
- Modifying the logon credentials for the remote computers
- Removing a remote computer from the Computer List
- Viewing the backup protection status of a remote computer
- Viewing the Protection Status report
- Exploring the contents of a recovery point
- Managing backup destinations
- About backup destinations
- Differences between drive-based backups and file and folder backups
- Cleaning up old recovery points
- Deleting a recovery point set
- Deleting recovery points within a recovery point set
- Copying recovery points
- About managing file and folder backup data
- Automating the management of backup data
- Moving your backup destination
- About support of OneDrive for Business
- Managing virtual conversions
- 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
- Managing cloud storage
- Direct to cloud
- Downloading OpenStorage Files
- How Offsite Copy works for cloud storage
- About creation of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in Amazon from Veritas System Recovery backups
- About S3-Compatible Cloud Storage
- About Veritas System Recovery supporting Veritas Access
- About the Cloud Instance Creator Utility
- 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
- Recovering a secondary drive
- Recovering a drive
- Exploring files and folders on your computer by using Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Recovering files and folders by using Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Recovering a computer
- About recovering a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-based computer
- Booting a computer by using the Veritas 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
- Recovering a computer with different hardware
- About using the networking tools in Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Viewing the properties of a recovery point in the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Viewing the properties of a drive within a recovery point in the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About the Support Utilities
- Copying a hard drive
- Using the Veritas System Recovery Granular Restore Option
- About the Veritas System Recovery Granular Restore Option
- Best practices when you create recovery points for use with the Granular Restore Option
- Starting the Granular Restore Option
- Starting Granular Restore Option and opening a specific recovery point
- Restoring a Microsoft Exchange mailbox
- Restoring a Microsoft Exchange email folder
- Restoring a Microsoft Exchange email message
- Restoring files and folders using Granular Restore Option
- Appendix A. Backing up databases using Veritas System Recovery
- Appendix B. Backing up Active Directory
- Appendix C. Backing up Microsoft virtual environments
- Appendix D. Using Veritas System Recovery 21 and Windows Server Core
- Index
Editing a backup schedule
You can edit any of the schedule properties for a defined backup to adjust the date and time.
To edit a backup schedule
- On the Tasks menu, click Run or Manage Backups.
- Select a backup to edit.
- On the toolbar, click Change Schedule.
- Make changes to the schedule.
Backup Time options for a recovery point set
Schedule
Runs the backup automatically according to a specified start time and the selected days of the week.
Default
Lets you use the default backup time schedule.
Advanced
Sets advanced scheduling options, such as setting up event triggers that start the backup in response to specific events.
Run more than once per day
Sets the time between backups and the number of times to back up.
Start a new recovery point set (base)
Starts a new recovery point set (base) weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly.
Custom
(Optional) Indicates how frequently a new recovery point set should be started.
For example, if you select Monthly, a new base recovery point is created the first time the backup runs during each new month.
Select event triggers
Lets you select events that automatically create a recovery point.
Details
Shows you information about the backup time option you have selected or specified.
Backup Time options for an independent recovery point
No Schedule
Runs the backup only when you run it yourself, manually.
Weekly
Runs the backup at the time and on the days of the week that you specify.
When you select this option, the Select the days of the week to protect dialog box appears.
Monthly
Runs the backup at the time and on the days of the month that you specify.
When you select this option, the Select the days of the month to protect dialog box appears.
Only run once
Runs the backup one time on the date and at the time you specify.
When you select this option, the Create a single recovery point dialog box appears.
Details
Indicates information about the backup time option you have selected or specified.
- Click OK.