Veritas™ System Recovery 21 Management Solution Administrator's Guide

To configure a remote Recover Drive task from the Monitor Tasks tab

1. Instruct the user of the client computer to close any applications and files that may be running or open on the drive to recover.
2. On the Veritas System Recovery 21 Management Solution Monitor Tasks tab, right-click Veritas System Recovery Tasks, and then click New > Task.
3. In the Client Tasks tree, click Veritas System Recovery Tasks > Recover Drive.
4. In the right pane of the Create New Task page, type a name for the task.
5. On the drop-down list, select a computer whose drive you want to recover.
6. Do one of the following:

   • Click View recovery points of the selected managed client computer.

   • Click View recovery points of all managed client computers.

7. Optionally, click Display recovery points from local and network offsite locations.

   This option only applies if you use an Offsite Copy destination within a backup policy or you have configured a dedicated Offsite Copy location.

   See About Offsite Copy.

8. Select a recovery point that you want to restore.
9. If the recovery point is password-protected, enter the correct password in the text field.
10. Click Advanced.
11. On the Select Destination tab, select the drive that you want to restore.

    If the drive does not have enough space available to restore a recovery point, select multiple, contiguous destinations on the same hard disk.

12. On the Options tab, set the restore options.

    Ignore recovery point corruption during recovery (potential data loss)	Automatically excludes the corrupted data and continues to restore the recovery point. The restored data does not contain the corrupted portion of data. Note: There may be potential data loss as corrupted data is excluded from restore.
    Verify recovery point before recovery	Determines whether a recovery point is valid or corrupt before it is recovered. If the recovery point is corrupt, the recovery process is discontinued. This option significantly increases the time that is required for the recovery to complete. However, it ensures that the recovery point being restored is valid.
    Do not verify recovery point before recovery	Does not verify whether a recovery point is valid or corrupt before it is recovered. During recovery, if there is corrupted data on the recovery point, an error message is displayed and you cannot recover the recovery point.
    Check for file system errors	Checks the recovered drive for errors after the recovery point is restored.
    Resize restored drive	Expands the drive to occupy the target drive's unallocated space.
    Set drive active (for booting OS)	Makes the recovered drive the active partition (the drive the client computer starts from). Only one drive can be active at a time. If you recover a secondary drive, do not check this option. (A secondary drive is a drive other than the one where the Windows operating system is installed.)
    Restore original disk signature	Restores the original, physical disk signature of the hard drive. Disk signatures are part of all Windows operating systems that Veritas System Recovery supports. Disk signatures are required to use the hard drive. Select this option if either of the following situations are true: A computer's drive letters are atypical (for example, assigned letters other than C, D, E, and so forth). You restore a recovery point to a blank hard drive.
    Partition type	Includes the following options: Primary partition Because hard disks are limited to four primary partitions, select this type if the drive has four or fewer partitions. Logical partition Select this type if you need more than four partitions. You can have up to three primary partitions, plus any number of logical partitions, up to the maximum size of the hard disk.
    Drive letter	Assigns a drive letter to the partition.

13. Click OK to return to the Create New Task page.
14. Click OK.
15. In the Task Status field, do one of the following:

    • To run the task as soon as possible, click Now, and then click Schedule.

    • To schedule the task to run at a later date and time, click Schedule. Specify the date and time to run the task, and then click Schedule at the bottom of the page.

    Double-click the description in the Task Status table to review a detailed summary of the task's progress.