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Installing arctera system recovery
System requirements for arctera system recovery
Supported file systems, disk types, disk partition schemes, and removable media
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
Feature availability in arctera system recovery
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
Languages options
Licensed features options
Startup options
Network options
Download and install windows assessment and deployment kit (adk)
Setup lightsout restore options
Arctera system recovery disk storage media/destination options
Storage and network drivers options
Adding a storage or network driver
Customizing an existing arctera system recovery disk
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
Network options
Welcome panel
Startup options
Recovery disk source options
Storage and network drivers options
Adding a storage or network driver
About restoring a computer from a remote location by using lightsout restore
Configuring lightsout restore
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
Welcome panel
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
Setting a default backup destination
Enabling network throttling
Setting default options for the windows notification area
File types and file extension
Adding new file types and extensions
Restoring default file types and extensions
Deleting a file type and all of its extensions
Renaming file types and 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
Advanced page
Using arctera system recovery restful application programming interfaces (apis)
Tools page
Improving your computer's performance during a backup
Best practices for backing up your data
Best practices for backing up data
Manually validating recovery points
Backing up dual boot computers
Backup destinations
What to do when a backup is finished
Tips for running defined backups
About backing up your data
Backing up entire drives
Defining a drive based backup
Usb disk rotation
How usb disk rotation works
Rules for network credentials
Editing backup options
Verifying the integrity of a recovery point
Viewing the progress of a backup
Recovery point encryption
Running command files during a backup
Compression levels for recovery points
Running a one time backup from arctera system recovery
How offsite copy works
Running a backup from arctera system recovery disk
Running and managing backup jobs
Running an existing backup job immediately
Running a backup to create an alternate type of recovery point
Verifying that a backup is successful
Stopping a backup or a recovery task
Editing backup settings
Editing a backup schedule
Deleting backup jobs
Disabling or enabling a backup job
Adding users who can back up your computer
Viewing the properties of a backup job
Configuring access rights for users or groups
Enabling event triggered backups
Adjusting the speed of a backup
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
About managing the arctera system recovery agent through windows services
Using the arctera system recovery agent
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
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
Best practices for arctera system recovery services
Starting or stopping the arctera system recovery agent service
Setting up recovery actions when the arctera system recovery agent does not start
Opening windows services
Viewing arctera system recovery agent dependencies
Monitoring the status of your backups
Icons on the status page
Customizing the status reporting of a drive (or file and folder backups)
About using event log information to troubleshoot problems
About monitoring backups
Refreshing the information that displays about hard disk configuration changes
Improving the protection level of a drive
Viewing drive details
Icons on the home page
Configuring arctera system recovery to send snmp traps
Managing and monitoring the backup status of remote computers using arctera system recovery manager
About
Configuring arctera system recovery manager default options
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
About backup tasks
Tips for creating recovery points
Recovery point set and independent recovery point in backup job
Editing backup jobs
Icons on the arctera system recovery manager console
Viewing the backup protection status for a remote computer
Adding a remote computer to all computers
Importing a text file to add multiple remote computers to all computers
Configuring windows firewall exceptions for arctera system recovery manager
Creating backup jobs
Viewing arctera system recovery dashboard
Removing backup jobs
Viewing the protection status report
Applying backup jobs
Starting arctera system recovery manager
Managing cloud storage
Direct to cloud
Openstorage destination options for recovery
Openstorage destination options for backups
Providing the openstorage destination path
How offsite copy works for cloud storage
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 creation of amazon machine image (ami) in amazon from arctera system recovery backups
How to view the conversion tasks and ami status
How to create an amazon machine image (ami)
About the cloud instance creator utility
Downloading openstorage files
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 granular restore option and opening a specific recovery point
Restoring a microsoft exchange email folder
Restoring a microsoft exchange mailbox
Starting the granular restore option
Restoring files and folders using granular restore option
Restoring a microsoft exchange email message
Appendix b. backing up active directory
Tips for protecting a domain controller in active directory
Appendix c. backing up microsoft virtual environments
About backing up microsoft virtual hard disks
About backing up and restoring microsoft hyper v virtual machines
Backing up files and folders
Backing up files and folders
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
Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
About recovering lost data
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 files and folders
Recovering files and folders by using file and folder backup data
Managing backup destinations
About backup destinations
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
Differences between drive based backups and file and folder backups
Managing virtual conversions
Running an existing virtual conversion job immediately
Viewing the progress of a virtual conversion job
Deleting a virtual conversion job
Viewing the properties of a virtual conversion job
Defining a virtual conversion job
Editing a virtual conversion job
Running a one time conversion of a physical recovery point to a virtual disk
Introducing arctera system recovery
Updating arctera system recovery with arctera update
Accessing arctera quickassist (aqa)
The components of arctera system recovery
About arctera system recovery
Accessing help and support for arctera system recovery
Sending your feedback regarding arctera system recovery 24
Appendix d. using arctera system recovery 24 and windows server core
Installing arctera system recovery 24 on windows server core using commands
About arctera system recovery 24 and windows server core
Appendix a. 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
About backing up databases using arctera system recovery
Index
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System recovery user docs
Product guides
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Arctera system recovery users guide
Arctera™ system recovery 24 user's guide - v24.0
Appendix b. backing up active directory
Appendix B. Backing up Active Directory
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Apr 02, 2026
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