Windows 10? New software update for Symantec System Recovery 2013 Desktop Edition?
I am currently using Symantec System Recovery 2013 R2 with my Windows 8.1 based desktop PC. I am planning on upgrading to Windows 10 on July 29, 2015 when Windows 10 is released. I've been relying on Norton Ghost and SSR 2013 to do full system images for years. Is Symantec currently working on software for Symantec System Recovery 2013 so that it will be compatible with Windows 10? Will Symantec be offering a FREE update patch to Symantec System Recovery 2013 that will make it compatible with Windows 10? Will it be called Symantec System Recovery 2013 R3 or something else like Symantec System Recovery 2015? I would like to see SSR 2013 tested and certified as compatible with Windows 10 as soon as possible. I would prefer not to have switch to another vendor's system image backup software like Acronis. Their website is saying that you can get a free software update for Windows 10 compatibility for Acronis True Image 2015.
* Now Released * Symantec System Recovery 2013
IT organizations facehardware, software and database / application downtime, lasting short periods of time to shutting down the business for days on a regular basis. Without adequate planning and preparation, any type of downtime can compromise a return to operations and cause financial damage as the ability to generate revenue is lost. Most organizations anticipate that unplanned downtime can — and likely will — occur at some future time. But, in today's world, the need to ensure Web-enabled 24 x 7 x 365 access to key applications is paramount. Thus planning for operational continuity and recovery from outages is rapidly becoming an urgent priority for commercial and government entities alike. New Symantec System Recovery 2013 - Generally Available Globally on7th Jan 2013 I amdelighted to announce that Symantec System Recovery 2013 is available from Monday 7th January 2013. Symantec System Recovery 2013 delivers superior backup and disaster recovery for servers, desktops, laptops, and virtual machines that enable businesses to recover from downtime or disasters in minutes. With patented Restore Anyware™ technology, IT administrators can rapidly restore exactly what they need, when and where they need it–including entire physical and virtual machines to bare metal or dissimilar hardware as well as files, folders, and granular application objects. Unlike other technologies, Symantec System Recovery also provides cross-platform Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), and Virtual to-Physical (V2P) recoveries, making it the perfect complement to physical and virtual environments. The new and powerfulfeatures in this latest release further extend Symantec System Recovery leadership position in Disaster Recovery and Data Protection for all sizes of businesses. This new release includessupport for the latest applications and operating systems, a new management solution for large scale deployments, and faster incremental backups in windows by up to 750%. Key new features in Symantec System Recovery 2013: Support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Support for VMwarevSphere5.0 and 5.1 UEFI Support:Symantec System Recoverynow enables boot from UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) in addition to BIOS. 64 bit Support:Full 64 bit support is now included. Advanced Monitoring and Reporting:Symantec SystemRecoveryMonitor is a new monitoring solution that's extremely simple to use andis FREE of charge to all Symantec System Recovery 2013 customers. It's a standalone andlightweightsolution for managing up to 100 nodes.It’s simplicity and no extra dependency eliminates the learning curve for users. Intuitive GUI along with essential action controls provide crisp status along with ability to take desired actions seamlessly through the same view. Smart Reconciliation:Now Backups and reconciliation are efficiently done by smartly tracking changed blocks.The reconcile time is drastically reduced to seconds by eliminating the need to do a complete reconcile in cases of crashes or abrupt shutdowns. In addition,incrementalbackups are now up to 750% faster. - Incremental Backup without reconcile – At least 35% faster than Symantec System Recovery 2011 - Full Backup – At least 15% faster than Symantec System Recovery 2011 - Incremental Backup with reconcile – At least 750% faster than Symantec System Recovery 2011 Updated Symantec System RecoveryLinux Edition:The Symantec System Recovery Linux Edition now includes the ability to perform incremental backups and schedule backupjobs. Try itNow FREE for 60 Days! You can download the new version of Symantec System Recovery from Monday 7th Jan 2013 onwardsby visiting: Symantec™ System Recovery 2013 Desktop Edition -https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=88749 Symantec™ System Recovery 2013 Small Business Server Edition -https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=88747 Symantec™ System Recovery 2013 Server Edition -https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=88724 Symantec™ System Recovery 2013 Linux Edition -https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=88752 Symantec™ System Recovery 2013 Virtual Edition-https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=88751
Netbackup Linux Bare Metal Restore using Open Source "Relax and Recover" (ReaR)
Just wanted to update NetBackup users about a open source tool that I have been using to successfully do bare metal Linux restores using our Netbackup. We use netbackup6.5 to backup our Linux and AIX servers.On our AIX servers we use a NIM server and we do network sysback backups on a weekly basis to provide the "Bare Metal" backup functionality. Unfortunately we had not Bare Metal restore functionality for Netbackup. I found a Open Source tool called "Relax and Recover" that provided a way to restore the OS using the full backups of the Linux systems on NetBackup. The tool as an option where it will create a bootable rescue iso file that contains all the Netbackup client executables and configuration to allow you to boot up your Linux server using the iso file then issue a simple command that will mount your OS disks separately and do a bprestore of all needed files to your actual OS disks. At the end of the restore the system re-create the GRUB information on the boot disk. The "mkerscue" is process can be ran any time with the Linux system is up and I just store that iso file on a separate server. The Netbackup code on the "Relax and Recover" was lacking some functionality that I wanted. Working with the developers they have accepted enhancements I made to the Netbackup (NBU) code. I added the functionality of excluding files and/or volume groups in the restore. I wanted this because I want to mainly use this to restore the OS only. I also added the functionality to restore from a point in time. They accepted the changes in SVN trunk 250. It will probably be in the next release of the product which should come out in one month's time. The web site for the product is: http://rear.sourceforge.net. They have a very useful program that has a very active supportive user base. The developers were very responsive and helpful to me to get the enhancements to the Netbackup interface in place. The program itself is just a big collection of bash shell scripts. This made adding the enhancements "doable' for a UNIX administrator such as myself. It is nice to be able to do a bare metal restoreto ourNetbackup backed up Linux servers without the need to do some type of clonzilla, "ghost" type backup which requires a system downtime..V-79-57344-38264 - Unable to copy the virtual machine disk using the VMware VixDiskLib.
Hello Everyone, Currently we have a server 2008 64bit server with BE 2014 which was upgrade from 2012 and for some strange reason I keep getting this particular error message while backing up a few VMs as you can see below. V-79-57344-38264 - Unable to copy the virtual machine disk using the VMware VixDiskLib. VixDiskLib_Read() reported the error: NBD_ERR_DISKLIBV-79-57344-38366 - WARNING: "VMVCB::\\10.0.1.5\VCGuestVm\(DC)ha-datacenter(DC)\vm\SCSMDW\SCSMDW\SM Warehouse-000002.vmdk" is a corrupt file. This file cannot verify. Transport mode 'nbd' was used for the read operation of the disk 'SM Warehouse_1-000002.vmdk' In addition, I have research this particular message and I have not yet found anything online that is exactly what I am having issues with. Furthermore to provide additional background information the issue that I am having with the VM are on an Exsi host that is running version 5.5.
SSR 2013 Trial - VSS_E_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE error
Just downloaded SSR 2013 trial. (I was a Ghost 15 user, but upgraded to Windows 8 so can no longer use Ghost.) On my first attempt to do a backup of my drive, I got a VSS_E_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE error. A bit of online research made me think I had to go to System Properties|System Protection and increase the amount of disk space available for system protection, which I did. I increased it from about 9GB to about 100GB. That did not help. FWIW, my hard drive is about 923GB, with about 760GB free. Any guidance? Many thanks. KenWindows Server 2012 R2 UEFI Restore Impossible?
I'm trying to do something that is dead simple, but frustratingly it's killing me... One little thing, just trying to backup and restore Windows Server 2012 R2 on an Intel i7 PC that's in UEFI mode with GPT partitions on a SATA SSD drive. Symantec System Recovery 2013 SP2 x64 v11.0.2.49853 has no problem going through the paces of restoring the backup, but afterward Windows fails to boot. I even went to the extent of wiping the C drive (and all the partitions), reinstalled WS2012 R2 Data Center GUI (nothing else except a network driver and SSR), backed up freshly installed WS2012 R2 to an external USB drive using SSR installed inside Windows, wiped the C drive (and all the partitions) and restored the backup, but all that effort didn't matter. PC still won't boot Windows. I also tried restoring the 100MB EFI Partition first, followed by the operating system and Recovery partitions, still no help. The only odd thing I see is inside the WinPE SRD, About - Symantec System Recovery Disk shows versions that seem old even though it was just extracted from the latest v11.0.2.49853 download zip file (although the SRD .iso file date of 12/15/13 is older than the SSR SP2 11.0.2 update that supposedly fixed UEFI problems). Symantec System Recovery Disk Symantec Recovery Toolkit 11.0.0 Version 11.0.0.49496 Copyright 1994-2012 Please scroll down to access my troubleshooting documentation "Symantec System Recovery 2013 x64 SP2 v11.0.2.49853 UEFI Restore Problem.pdf" with a detailed collection of photos showing the entire backup and restore process. Do you see anything usual or something that I'm doing wrong?Please help because obviously I am unhealthily obsessed with this problem! ;-) Thanks! FWIW, I have reviewed these articles, comments and tips about SSR and restoring UEFI partitions: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO84141 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH177792 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH128386 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH207176 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH200291 http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH200293 https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/ssr-201020112013-and-restore-anyware-uefi And, tried these suggestions too: https://neosmart.net/wiki/0xc0000225/
SSR 2013 - support for Windows 8.1/2012 R2 available now!
Service Pack 2 for Symantec System Recovery (SSR) 2013 will be available soon and, amongst other things, will bring support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. I cannot provide an exact date for the release of SP2 at this stage but this thread will be updated with details (release notes etc) when SP2 is available. Please let me know if you have any questions.