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  • Introducing Arctera System Recovery
    • About Arctera System Recovery
    • The components of Arctera System Recovery
    • Accessing Help and Support for Arctera System Recovery
    • Sending your feedback regarding Arctera System Recovery 24.1
    • Accessing Arctera QuickAssist (AQA)
    • Updating Arctera System Recovery with Arctera Update
  • Installing Arctera System Recovery
    • System requirements for Arctera System Recovery
    • Supported file systems, disk types, disk partition schemes, and removable media
    • Feature availability in Arctera System Recovery
    • About the trial version of Arctera System Recovery
    • Installing Arctera System Recovery
      • Activating and setting up Arctera System Recovery after installation
      • Activating Arctera System Recovery after the trial period
    • Uninstalling Arctera System Recovery
    • System requirements for Arctera System Recovery Manager
    • Installing Arctera System Recovery Manager
  • Ensuring the recovery of your computer
    • Creating a new Arctera System Recovery Disk
      • Welcome Panel
      • Creation Options
        • Arctera System Recovery Disk recovery matrix
        • Arctera System Recovery Disk customization support matrix
        • Non-availability of the Typical option
      • Download and install Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)
      • Languages Options
      • Arctera System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination Options
      • Licensed Features Options
      • Storage and Network Drivers Options
        • Adding a Storage or Network Driver
      • Startup Options
      • Network Options
      • Setup LightsOut Restore Options
    • Customizing an existing Arctera System Recovery Disk
      • Welcome Panel
      • Recovery Disk Source Options
      • Arctera System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination Options
        • How to add new drivers or driver versions to the Arctera System Recovery Disk
      • Licensed Features Options
      • Storage and Network Drivers Options
        • Adding a Storage or Network Driver
      • Startup Options
      • Network Options
    • About restoring a computer from a remote location by using LightsOut Restore
      • Configuring LightsOut Restore
        • Welcome Panel
        • Source Location Options
        • Licensed Features Options
        • Storage and Network Drivers Options
          • Adding a Storage or Network Driver
        • Startup Options
        • Network Options
        • Setup LightsOut Restore Options
    • Testing the Arctera System Recovery Disk
  • Getting Started
    • How to use Arctera System Recovery
    • Starting Arctera System Recovery
    • Configuring Arctera System Recovery default options
    • Setting up default general backup options
      • Arctera™ System Recovery 24.1 User's Guide - v24.1
    • Improving your computer's performance during a backup
    • Enabling network throttling
    • Setting default options for the Windows notification area
    • File types and file extension
      • Adding new file types and extensions
      • Renaming file types and extensions
      • Restoring default file types and extensions
      • Deleting a file type and all of its extensions
    • Removing or changing the unique name for an external drive
    • Configuring default FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy
    • Logging Arctera 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 Arctera System Recovery RESTful Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
  • Best practices for backing up your data
    • About backing up your data
    • Best practices for backing up data
    • What to do when a backup is finished
    • Tips for running defined backups
    • Backup destinations
    • Backing up dual-boot computers
    • Manually validating recovery points
  • Backing up entire drives
    • Defining a drive-based backup
      • USB disk rotation
        • How USB disk rotation works
      • Rules for network credentials
      • Running command files during a backup
      • Editing backup options
      • Verifying the integrity of a recovery point
      • Viewing the progress of a backup
      • Recovery point encryption
    • Compression levels for recovery points
    • Running a one-time backup from Arctera System Recovery
    • Running a backup from Arctera System Recovery Disk
    • How Offsite Copy works
  • Backing up files and folders
    • Backing up files and folders
  • Running and managing backup jobs
    • Running an existing backup job immediately
      • Running a backup to create an alternate type of recovery point
    • 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
    • About backing up other computers from your computer
      • Adding remote computers to the Computer List
      • Adding local computers to the Computer List
      • Removing a computer from the Computer List
    • About the Arctera System Recovery Agent
      • Using the Arctera System Recovery Agent
      • About managing the Arctera System Recovery Agent through Windows Services
    • About deploying the Arctera System Recovery Agent
      • Preparing a computer in a workgroup environment to deploy the Arctera System Recovery Agent
      • Deploying the Arctera System Recovery Agent
      • Manually installing the Arctera System Recovery Agent
    • Best practices for Arctera System Recovery services
      • Opening Windows services
      • Starting or stopping the Arctera System Recovery Agent service
      • Setting up recovery actions when the Arctera System Recovery Agent does not start
    • Viewing Arctera System Recovery Agent dependencies
    • About controlling access to Arctera System Recovery
      • Enabling users or groups to access Arctera System Recovery
      • Changing permissions for a user or a group
      • Disabling access for users or groups to Arctera System Recovery
      • Running Arctera System Recovery using different user rights
  • Monitoring the status of your backups
    • About monitoring backups
      • Refreshing the information that displays about hard disk configuration changes
    • Icons on the Home page
    • Icons on the Status page
    • Configuring Arctera 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
  • Managing and Monitoring the backup status of remote computers using Arctera System Recovery Manager
    • About
    • Configuring Windows firewall exceptions for Arctera System Recovery Manager
    • Starting Arctera System Recovery Manager
    • Icons on the Arctera System Recovery Manager console
    • Configuring Arctera System Recovery Manager default options
    • Viewing Arctera System Recovery Dashboard
    • Adding a remote computer to All Computers
      • Importing a text file to add multiple remote computers to All Computers
    • Searching a remote computer from All Computers
    • Modifying the logon credentials for the remote computers
    • Running or Deleting Backup Jobs for the Remote computers
    • Removing a remote computer from the All Computers
    • Viewing the backup protection status of a remote computer
    • Viewing the backup protection status for a remote computer
    • Viewing the Protection Status report
    • About Backup Tasks
      • Recovery Point Set and Independent Recovery Point in backup job
      • Tips for creating recovery points
    • Creating Backup Jobs
    • Editing Backup Jobs
    • Removing Backup Jobs
    • Applying Backup Jobs
  • Exploring the contents of a recovery point
    • About exploring recovery points
    • Exploring a recovery point through Windows Explorer
      • Mounting a recovery point from Windows Explorer
    • Opening and restoring files within a recovery point browser
    • Dismounting a recovery point drive
    • Viewing the drive properties 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
      • Viewing the amount of file and folder backup data that is stored on a backup destination
      • Manually deleting files from your backups of files and folders
      • Finding versions of a file or folder
    • 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
      • Providing the OpenStorage destination path
      • OpenStorage destination options for backups
      • OpenStorage destination options for recovery
    • Downloading OpenStorage Files
    • How Offsite Copy works for cloud storage
    • About creation of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in Amazon from Arctera System Recovery backups
      • How to create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
      • How to view the conversion tasks and AMI status
    • About S3-Compatible Cloud Storage
      • Using S3-Compatible Cloud Storage in Arctera System Recovery
    • About Arctera System Recovery supporting Arctera Access
      • Using Arctera Access Storage in Arctera System Recovery
    • 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 Arctera System Recovery Disk
    • Recovering files and folders by using Arctera System Recovery Disk
  • Recovering a computer
    • About recovering a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-based computer
    • Booting a computer by using the Arctera System Recovery Disk
      • Configuring a computer to start from a USB device or DVD
    • 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 Arctera System Recovery Disk
      • Starting networking services
      • Mapping a network drive from within Arctera System Recovery Disk
      • Configuring network connection settings
        • Setting a status IP address to enable recovery from a recovery point on a network share or drive
        • Getting a static IP address if pinging is unsuccessful
    • Viewing the properties of a recovery point in the Arctera System Recovery Disk
    • Viewing the properties of a drive within a recovery point in the Arctera System Recovery Disk
    • About the Support Utilities
  • Copying a hard drive
    • Preparing to copy a hard drive
    • Copying one hard drive to another hard drive
  • Using the Arctera System Recovery Granular Restore Option
    • About the Arctera System Recovery Granular Restore Option
    • Best practices when you create recovery points for use with the Granular Restore Option
      • Protecting your Microsoft Exchange server for successful backups
    • 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
  • Backing up databases using Arctera System Recovery
    • About backing up databases using Arctera System Recovery
    • Creating a manual cold (offline) backup
    • Creating an automatic warm backup
    • Creating a hot (online) backup using Arctera System Recovery
  • Backing up Active Directory
    • Tips for protecting a domain controller in Active Directory
  • Backing up Microsoft virtual environments
    • About backing up Microsoft virtual hard disks
    • About backing up and restoring Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
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  • Installing Arctera System Recovery
  • Uninstalling Arctera System Recovery
  • System requirements for Arctera System Recovery Manager
  • Installing Arctera System Recovery Manager
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