Veritas System Recovery 18 SP3 now supports Hidden Partitions
Veritas System Recovery (VSR) provides the end users with the flexibility to store their backed up data on either local drives, cloud, network share, FTP Server or Business One Drive. With this release, VSR extends this range, with support for hidden partitions as a backup destination. The key focus for Enterprises has been to ensure protection against Ransomware threats. From a Ransomware protection strategy, the hidden partitions are more secure, as these volumes are unmounted and not readily accessible. To create hidden partition for VSR: Hidden partition can be created either using Windows Disk Management tool or Windows MountVol utility. Using Disk Management: Open Run Window and type diskmgmt.msc and click OK to launch Disk Management. Select the partition that should be hidden and remove the drive letter. Using MountVol System utility: Open Windows command prompt in an elevated mode. Type command mountvol, to list all volume name and its mount point. Identify the partition that should be hidden and run following command, to hide this partition - mountvol [drive:]path /D E.g.: mountvol E: /D, where E: is a drive letter. To Backup and Recover a drive from a hidden partition: To Backup a drive to a hidden partition: Backup to hidden partition workflow is similar to the existing backup destination options. To support hidden partition a new checkbox Only Hidden Drives is provided. To select the created hidden partitions as a backup destination, select this checkbox and click Browse. Alternatively, the created hidden partition can be entered manually in Folder edit box in following format: DiskNo-PartitionNo\ E.g.: 2-3\ - where the disk number is 2 and partition number is 3. Hidden Partition as a backup destination from System Recovery To Restore Recovery Points from Hidden Partition: To recover from a hidden drive, user must specify the location of the hidden drive in the following format: DiskNo-PartitionNo\Filename.v2i or DiskNo-PartitionNo\Filename.iv2i E.g.: 2-3\MyPC_CDrive.v2i - where 2 is the disk number and 3 is the partition number.Veritas System Recovery 18 On-Demand Webinar
This one hour on-demand webinar will look at how organizations can recover from system loss or disasters in minutes, not hours or days. Veritas™ System Recovery 18 helps protect your organization proactively by capturing automated backups without disrupting productivity.
Mac Disk Recovery : Recover Deleted Boot Partition
Mac OS X hard drive is divided into various partitions, called volume, for effective management of your precious data stored on it. Every Mac computer has a boot volume, which contains critical system files that are required for your Mac OS X operating system-based computer to boot up. These files are pretty important for booting up your system. In case the boot partition gets damaged or deleted, your system become totally unbootable and unusable. It leads to severe data loss and require Mac drive recovery solutions to fix the problem, if there is no backup in place. The boot volume of your Mac OS X operating system contains the following files: Mac OS X operating system. MBR (Master Boot Record). BootX, Mac OS X boot loader. Operating system kernel. Binary files that are required for multiple kernel extensions. Mach/BSD data structures. Input/Output Kit. Init, Mach bootstrap (service naming) daemon. The boot volume of your Mac OS X hard drive must be a primary volume and set as active. This need can be completed on any hard drive on a computer that your system BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) searches when Mac OS X operating system starts. There are some situations where boot volume of your Mac computer may get damaged and your system can not boot up. This behavior cause critical data loss and put you in need of disk recovery Mac solutions. Boot volume may corrupt due to any of the following reasons: Improper system shutdown due to power outage, system crash, and user mistakes. Accidental deletion of some critical boot files by the user. Virus infection. Viruses are malicious programs that may enter your system through Internet, Email, or removable devices. Operating system malfunction. Missing or corrupt data structures, like file system, MBR, boot loader, and operating system kernel. If you come across any of the above mentioned situations, you need to format your hard drive, reinstall Mac OS X operating system, and then restore data from backup. But, you may face critical situations if backup is not available. In such situations, Mac disk recovery software come for your help to extract inaccessible data. The drive recovery Mac tools are particularly designed to scan entire drive and extract all inaccessible data from it.
New Symantec System Recovery 2013 Out Now!
IT organizations face hardware, 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.
Restoring a UEFI based system With Symantec System Recovery 2013
New Symantec System Recovery 2013 supports the Backup and Restore of UEFI based system. The following document is intended to walk through the restore procedure of UEFI based systems. The following screenshot gives a glimpse of disk structure of a UEFI based system:The Concept of Snapshot Levels and Quiescing
In my struggles to understand various instant snapshot technologies, I have come up with the following way to help me better understand the fundamental concepts behind all snapshot products. Please note that everything covered here are deliberately oversimplified. I also refer to LUNs, disks, volumes and partitions interchangeably.Symantec System Recovery Linux 2013 commands set
Hi All, In this blog you will get introduce to product Symantec System Recovery Linux edition 2013 commands. This can be used to quickly refer available commands product offers. For more details on prerequisites, examples and features details please refer user guide symsrl.pdf which comes along with product.
