Veritas™ System Recovery 18 Service Pack 3 Management Solution Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): System Recovery (18.0.3)
  1. Introducing Veritas System Recovery Management Solution
    1.  
      About Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution
    2.  
      Components of Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution
    3.  
      How Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution works
    4.  
      What you can do with Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution
  2. Installing Veritas System Recovery Management Solution
    1.  
      About upgrading to Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution
    2.  
      Installing Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution
    3.  
      Uninstalling Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution
  3. Getting started with Veritas System Recovery Management Solution
    1.  
      About the Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution Home page
    2.  
      Starting Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution
    3.  
      Sending feedback to Veritas
    4.  
      Preparing to manage the backups of client computers
    5.  
      Discovering client computers on the network
    6.  
      Installing the Symantec Management Agent on client computers
    7.  
      Installing the Veritas System Recovery Plug-in on computers
    8.  
      Uninstalling the Veritas System Recovery Plug-in on computers
    9.  
      Installing Veritas System Recovery 18 or Veritas System Recovery 18 Linux Edition on client computers
    10.  
      Installing Veritas System Recovery 16 on client computers
    11.  
      Installing Veritas System Recovery 16 Linux Edition on client computers
    12.  
      Installing Symantec System Recovery 2013 R2 on client computers
    13.  
      Installing Symantec System Recovery 2013 R2 Linux Edition on client computers
    14.  
      Uninstalling Veritas System Recovery-related products and components from client computers
    15.  
      Generating the LightsOut Restore package in Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution
    16.  
      Generating the LightsOut Restore 16 package
    17.  
      Generating the LightsOut Restore 2013 R2 package
    18.  
      Configuring and installing LightsOut Restore 18 on client computers
    19.  
      Configuring and installing LightsOut Restore 16 on client computers
    20.  
      Configuring and installing LightsOut Restore 2013 R2 on client computers
    21.  
      Uninstalling LightsOut Restore from client computers
    22.  
      Updating the settings of a package
    23.  
      Uninstalling Veritas System Recovery-related products from the Symantec Management Platform
    24.  
      Adding or removing recovery point passwords
    25. About managing recovery point destinations
      1.  
        Creating default recovery point destinations
      2.  
        Editing network credentials for a recovery point destination
      3.  
        Deleting recovery point destinations
    26.  
      Configuring a Dedicated Offsite Copy task
    27. About viewing filters
      1.  
        Viewing Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution filters
      2.  
        Viewing the filters and policies that are assigned to a client computer
      3.  
        Adding a filtered results path in the Manage Tasks tab to Favorites
    28. About organizational views
      1.  
        Filtering the list of client computers using organizational views
    29. About managing Veritas System Recovery license policies
      1.  
        Adding Veritas System Recovery license policies
      2.  
        Deleting Veritas System Recovery license policies
      3.  
        Assigning Veritas System Recovery licenses to client computers
      4.  
        Unassigning Veritas System Recovery licenses from client computers
      5.  
        Checking the license status of Veritas System Recovery on client computers
  4. Managing backups
    1. About backup policies
      1.  
        Recovery point sets and independent recovery points in backup policies
      2.  
        Tips for creating recovery points
      3.  
        About backing up dual-boot systems
    2. Creating a basic backup policy
      1.  
        About recovery points stored on a network destination
      2.  
        About recovery points stored in a local folder on the client computer
      3.  
        About recovery points stored on an OpenStorage destination
      4.  
        About Offsite Copy
    3. Creating an advanced backup policy
      1.  
        About running command files during a backup
      2.  
        Deploying the command files package to client computers for use during a backup
    4.  
      Creating an independent backup task
    5.  
      Deploying a backup policy
    6.  
      Deploying an existing backup policy as soon as possible
    7.  
      Viewing the status of computers within a backup policy
    8.  
      Editing a backup policy
    9.  
      Editing the schedule of a backup policy
    10.  
      Renaming a backup policy
    11.  
      Disabling a backup policy
    12.  
      Disabling a backup schedule
    13.  
      Deleting a backup policy
    14.  
      Viewing Veritas System Recovery details for a client computer
  5. Managing recovery points
    1.  
      Best practices for creating recovery points
    2.  
      Best practices for managing recovery points
    3. About deleting recovery points
      1.  
        Deleting a recovery point set
      2.  
        Deleting recovery points within a set
  6. Managing the conversion of recovery points to virtual disks
    1.  
      About converting recovery points to virtual disks
    2.  
      Configuring a Convert to Virtual by Computer task
    3.  
      Configuring a Convert to Virtual by Destination task
    4.  
      Configuring a one-time convert to virtual task
    5.  
      Editing a convert to virtual task
    6.  
      Deleting a convert to virtual task
  7. Managing Cloud Storage
    1.  
      Direct to cloud
    2. Providing the OpenStorage destination path
      1.  
        OpenStorage destination options for backups
      2.  
        OpenStorage destination options for recovery
    3.  
      How Offsite Copy works for cloud storage
  8. Remote recovery of drives and computers
    1. About recovering a drive remotely
      1. Using LightsOut Restore to remotely recover client computers
        1.  
          Setting up and using LightsOut Restore
    2.  
      Recovering a drive
    3.  
      Recovering a remote computer
    4.  
      Performing an express recovery
  9. Local recovery of files, folders, drives, and computers
    1. About recovering lost data locally
      1.  
        Recovering files and folders locally by using file and folder backup data
      2.  
        Recovering files and folders locally by using a recovery point
    2.  
      Recovering a computer locally
    3. Starting a computer locally by using Veritas System Recovery Disk
      1.  
        Configuring a computer locally to start from a USB device or DVD
    4.  
      Checking a hard disk for errors
    5.  
      Recovering a computer locally by using a Veritas System Recovery Disk
    6.  
      About using Restore Anyware to recover locally to a computer with different hardware
    7. Recovering files and folders locally by using Veritas System Recovery Disk
      1.  
        Exploring files and folders locally on a computer by using Veritas System Recovery Disk
    8. About using the networking tools in Veritas System Recovery Disk
      1.  
        Starting networking services
      2.  
        Mapping a network drive from within Veritas System Recovery Disk
      3. Configuring network connection settings
        1.  
          Getting a static IP address
    9.  
      Viewing the properties of a recovery point
    10.  
      Viewing the properties of a drive within a recovery point
    11.  
      About the Support Utilities on Veritas System Recovery Disk
  10. Monitoring computers and processes
    1.  
      Viewing reports
    2.  
      Configuring a client option policy for computers
  11. Appendix A. About backing up databases
    1.  
      About backing up VSS-aware databases
    2. About backing up non-VSS-aware databases
      1.  
        Creating the cold, warm, and hot recovery points
    3.  
      Backing up Notification Server and the database
  12. Appendix B. About Active Directory
    1.  
      About the role of Active Directory
  13. Appendix C. Backing up Microsoft virtual environments
    1.  
      About backing up Microsoft virtual hard disks
    2.  
      About backing up and restoring Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
  14. Appendix D. About Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution and Windows Server 2008 Core
    1.  
      About Veritas System Recovery 18 and Windows Server Core
    2.  
      Installing Veritas System Recovery 18 on Windows Server Core using commands

Installing the Veritas System Recovery Plug-in on computers

Using Symantec Management Platform policies, you can install the Veritas System Recovery Plug-in or the Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition Plug-in to computers on your network. You can also use policies to upgrade (excludes the Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition) and uninstall the plug-in.

See Uninstalling the Veritas System Recovery Plug-in on computers.

Note:

To use rollout policies, the Symantec Management Agent must be installed on the computers that you want to manage. You should already have a working knowledge of policies, packages, programs, and resource targets.

The amount of time that is required to install Veritas System Recovery can vary. It depends on the number of computers on which you want to install it.

See Preparing to manage the backups of client computers.

The following table describes the Veritas System Recovery Plug-in policies that are included with your installation of Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution.

Table: Predefined Veritas System Recovery Plug-in policies

Veritas System Recovery Plug-in policy

Description

Veritas System Recovery Plug-in

Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition Plug-in

A software delivery policy that is installed on resource targets with no Veritas System Recovery Plug-in installed. You can also use the uninstall program with the software delivery policy to uninstall the plug-in.

The Veritas System Recovery Plug-in lets you run tasks from Notification Server on the client computer. This plug-in policy also gathers information from the plug-in itself (such as backup definitions, changes to back up policies or Independent Backup tasks, and backup status). That information is published back to Notification Server. The Veritas System Recovery Plug-in accepts and applies backup configuration changes from Notification Server.

Veritas System Recovery Plug-in Upgrade

A software delivery policy that upgrades the previously installed Veritas System Recovery Plug-in on the resource targets that require an upgrade to the plug-in.

Veritas System Recovery Plug-in Uninstall

Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition Plug-in Uninstall

A software delivery policy that uninstalls the previously installed Veritas System Recovery Plug-in on resource targets with the plug-in.

To install the Veritas System Recovery Plug-in on client computers

  1. Do one of the following:

    To install the Veritas System Recovery for Windows Plug-in

    Do the following:

    • On the Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution Packages and Policies tab, in the Install Policies list in the left pane, under Agent Plug-in, click Install Plug-in for Veritas System Recovery.

    To install the Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition Plug-in

    Do the following:

    • On the Veritas System Recovery 18 Management Solution Packages and Policies tab, in the Install Policies list in the left pane, under Agent Plug-in, click Install Plug-in for Veritas System Recovery Linux.

  2. Near the upper-right corner of the right pane, make sure On is selected from the list to enable the software delivery policy.
  3. Set the deployment options.

    Program name

    Identifies the name of the program that you want to run.

    Enable Verbose Reporting of Status Events

    Sends the plug-in status events to the Notification Server computer.

    Applied to

    Identifies the resource target to which you want the software task applied.

    Package multicast

    Lets you uncheck (default) this option if you want to enable package multicast when the Symantec Management Agent's multicast option is disabled.

    Schedule

    Runs the software task either at a specific start time, or at specified start, end, and duration times.

    You can specify as many schedules as you need. You can also have any number of schedules active at once.

  4. Click Save changes.