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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
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
Setting a default backup destination
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
Appendix A. 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
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
Appendix D. Using Arctera System Recovery 24 and Windows Server Core
About Arctera System Recovery 24 and Windows Server Core
Installing Arctera System Recovery 24 on Windows Server Core using commands
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Appendix D. Using Arctera System Recovery 24 and Windows Server Core
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