Veritas System Recovery Management Solution End of Life
Does Veritas have any updated commitments as to the features and capabilities that will be included in the Veritas System Recovery Monitor ? As of the latest updates I have, the Recovery Monitor does not offer the same capabilities for enterprise scale management of VSR clients. Given the deprecation of features and fact that there is not a long time to make a major change like the recovery tool we have to make a decision fairly soon as to our future state. (Select a new product that is more scalable, etc). If I have to base this off the tool as it is today, the Recovery monitor just cannot work for us. Any further updates as to this product ?
uninstall IT management suite how to
How to uninstall thge IT management solution? I have opened Symanetc instalaltion manager, uninstalled VSR 21 management solution. IT Management suit could not be uninstaleld form there Then I went to the control panel and uninstalled Symantec platform and solution. however, there are still a lot of folders related to IT suiote in program files, and there are still many altiris services in services.msc. How to get rid of all this stuff?
Veritas System Recovery Desktop referral
I have used System Recovery and its predecessors for many years. I have an acquaintance who is very technical and I was recommending System Recovery for Desktop for home PC windows backup use. They brought up some of the commonly used paid and free alternatives and I was trying to find some reviews or feature comparisons to pass along. However I could not find any reviews or any third party comparisons to other imaging products. Is there something I can send along? I started using SSR due to my prior use of SSR and Ghost, but was curious what to refer this person to. Thanks, BJB PS. Upgrading to 18 next week. It looks like I need to install 18 and then the new service pack? Any interesting new features?Centralised Management without VSR-MS
As annouced today VSR 21.3 has discontinued support for VSR-MS.:smileysurprised: Who does Veritas think should one centrally manage 150+ clients in 100+ different locations? :smileysad: SR Monitor might help with monitoring, but definitly not with policies and settings! And how to migrate all does centrally managed jobs to locally managed jobs?!:smileyfrustrated:
Ransomware - Encrypted backups
Hi Guys, one of the servers have been hit with ransomware, they have encrypted all files and folders including the last good backup, there is no offsite backup and this is the real only hope to get our info back. The backup was done the night before the attack and no further backups have taken place. All files are now encrypted with .roger extension I can rename the files back to readable .v2i format, but when trying to open them it fails, not sure if they corrupted or if just not doing it right. Are there other tools out there that can retrieve content information of .v2i backups? Hoping for good news...Thanks in advance
My approximately annual plea to fix this MAJOR flaw
I've reported this issue previously, but just thought I'd try again. This issue is ongoing for several years but nothing ever gets done. The issue is simply that the screens displayed by the recovery media for System Recovery are UNREADABLE on systems using small, high DPI screens in UEFI mode. As an example, take a look at this snapshot of the main screen from the System Recovery boot media: Note how this is completely unusable. There is not even a means of scrolling to the portions that don't fit within the screen. One other thing to note about the screenshot above: As attached in this post, that window may look very large. But the image above is actually greatly magnified. You can get an idea of how small that screen is by looking at the "X" to close the dialog in the upper right and the tip of the mouse pointer at the lower right. In other words, there are two issue: That screen is extremely tiny and elements simply don't fit properly making the recovery media unusable because you simply cannot navigate it. I actually ran into a real world situation recently where I need to recover from a backup on my laptop and I simply couldn't do it. I ended up having to install Windows from scratch, install System Recovery, and then mount my backup and recover my data manually. That was very time consuming and would have been so much easier if I could have simply performed an image recovery. I don't understand why this issue continues to go unresolved for years. To reproduce the issue, you need the following: 1) A computer that is configured to boot in pure UEFI mode (not BIOS, or UEFI with CSM). 2) A small screen run a high resolution. As an example, a 15-inch laptop screen with a 4k (3840 x 2160) resolution. 3) Veritas System Recovery media running in either the "Typical" or "Advanced" mode (WinRE or WinPE). I like to report this issue maybe once a year in the hope that one day someone will actually take pity on me and address this issue :-). Apologies if my tone is a little harsh. It's simply that it gets a little old seeing this same rather high priority issue for years now.Any plans to modernize the file / folder backup capability of System Recovery?
Are there any plans to modernize the File and Folder Backup option? From the user guide: Note: The file and folder backup is intended for less than 10,000 files. If the data to be backed up exceeds this amount, Veritas strongly recommends to use the drive-based backup. 10,000 files is a ridiculous limitation. I have a single folder with over 250,000 files / subfolders in it and that's nothing compared to what the rest of HD contains. A full disk image on this particular drive would be impractical because I store virtual machines created for various test scenarios here and these would result in backup deltas of a couple hundred GB per day. Since they are for testing only, I would want to exclude these from a backup, but disk imaging does not allow for that. A file and folder backup would be appropriate here, but Veritas does not recommend using it with more than 10,000 files. Put another way, System Recovery is not capable of efficiently backing up my data.
Error ECA307D2: Failed to open (mount or apply) the WIM file in the Veritas System Recovery Disk mod
I'm actually using VSR ver 21 but that wasn't in the drop-down. I have to install windwos ADK ver 1703 to support access to my Buffalo NAS despite it supporting SMB ver 2. When I create "Typical" SRD WITHOUT the ADK ver 1703 installed it works fine but then I don't have proper access to my NAS When I create "Typical" or "Advanced" WITH ADM ver 1703 installed it fails with the attached error. I have read many posts on this topic. Anti Virsu SW can be an issue. I only use out-of-the-box Microsoft stuff and I have turned it all off without any luck. Any suggestions?
