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Featured: New Symantec System Recovery 2013 Out Now!
Kate Lewis | 11 Jan 2013 | 31 comments

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. 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 on 7th Jan 2013

I am delighted to announce that Symantec System Recovery 2013 is available from Monday 7th January 2013. Symantec System Recovery 2013 delivers...

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Installing Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution
manishkrsingh | 17 May 2013 | 0 comments

First-time install:

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You install Symantec Installation Manager on the computer where you plan to install the Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution. Ensure the server has high speed internet connection.

 

For an offline installation, you install Symantec Installation Manager on a computer that has an Internet connection. You then use Symantec Installation Manager to create an installation package that you run on the computer that does not have an Internet connection

 

 

  1. Log on to your computer by using either the Administrator account or an Account with administrator privileges.
  2. Install Symantec Installation Manager (SIM).
  1. To download SIM, visit http://www.symantec.com/products/downloads/?inid=...
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Restoring a UEFI based system With Symantec System Recovery 2013
Sandeep_SSR | 14 May 2013 | 0 comments

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:

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The Highlighted area or the partitions/volumes are the critical ones and must be backed up in order to do a Disaster Recovery of the UEFI based system.

Once the system is booted into the SSR 2013 SRD mode please select ‘Recover My Computer’ option on the home screen.

On the ‘Select a Recovery Point to Restore’ SSR 2013 provides 3 options to choose from:

  1. Recover System by date/time.
  2. Recover System by Filename.
  3. Recover System by System (view).

 

  1. Recover System by date/time.

When this option is...

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Introducing Symantec System Recovery Linux 2013
Shashank_Mulay | 10 May 2013 | 1 comment

Hi All,

In this blog you will get introduce to product Symantec System Recovery Linux  2013 and how to install it.

As product name describe this product is for Linux platform and complements Symantec System Recovery product available for Windows with all important features which user would require in any Backup and Recovery product.

Symantec System Recovery Linux henceforth in this blog will be called SSRL is a third release on Linux platform and have following features in it.

 

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Feature Set

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Independent backup (Full  backup) and restore

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Incremental backup and restore

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Scheduling  backup Job
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Symantec System Recovery 2013 Monitor
rakesh_singh | 07 May 2013 | 0 comments

This blog is next in the series of SSR Monitor blogs. Please refer to following link for the older blog:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/symantec-system-recovery-2013-monitor-0

In this blog lets look at:

a. Various operations possible using Symantec System Recovery 2013 Monitor.

b. Troubleshooting tips in case of connection failures.

Various operations possible: Please refer to screenshot below for various operations possible on a machine.

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Users can use the search capability to search for a particular machine. Lets say a user has add 100 machines and he/she is interested in finding the current status of a particular machine. In this case user could easily key in the name of the machine in the search field and filter...

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Symantec System Recovery 2013 Monitor
rakesh_singh | 07 May 2013 | 0 comments

In this blog lets look at some of the features and capabilities of Symantec System Recovery 2013 Monitor. This blog is continuation of the introductory blog available at:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/symantec-system-recovery-2013-monitor

Symantec System Recovery Monitor 2013 provides users a choice to have one of the two views possibl: “Category” view and “All computers view”. To switch between these two views press ctrl+T

All computer view

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Category view:

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SSR Monitor also provides the capability to add remote computers in a bulk fashion – using Import feature. To use the import feature user...

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My Netbackup Activites and Symantec Support
inn_kam | 25 Mar 2013 | 2 comments

Hi

i am working as Systems Engineer in one of the Vendor Side Company , and give support for Symantec Netbackup + Desktop Laptop + Ops Center for lots of Customer .and if got any complicated issue , we took help from Symantec  with excellent support.

In this blog i would like to contribute my Experience for trouble shooting various cases at customer side with the help of Symantec

And it wil help lots of people who are new in using Symantec Netbackup.

 

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Powershell Scripting support in SSR 2013
Kaustubh Talekar | 24 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

Symantec system recovery 2013 supports powershell based scripting. There are 25 powershell scripts which will help user in automating their environment. These scripts are located on the install media at the following location :

\DOCS\AUTOMATION\POWERSHELLSCRIPTS

The powershell scripts provides ways to automate various operations. Operations are divided into following categories :

  • Backup :
    • AddImageJob
    • CreateBaseImageNow
    • CreateImageNow
    • CreateIncrementalImage
  • Restore :
    • RestoreImage
    • Delayed_Restore
  • Virtual :
    • CreateVirtual
    • CreateVirtualConversionForESXServer
    • CreateVirtualMachineFromSv2i
  • Install :
    • SilentInstall
    • InstallLicense
    • Lights Out Restore Install
  • Utility Scripts :
    • Cancel_A_Scheduled_Job
    • ConsolidateRecoveryPoints
    • CopyToDestination
    • ...
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Backing up a UEFI based System
Sandeep_SSR | 21 Feb 2013 | 1 comment

Backing up a UEFI based System:-

New Symantec System Recovery 2013 supports the Backup and Restore of UEFI based system.

The following document is intended to walk through the backup procedure of UEFI based systems.

 

On the Define Backup Wizard SSR 2013 will list all the volumes on the system that can be backed up. In the following image we have ‘C drive’ available.

The ‘Show Hidden Drives’ option enables the user to view and select the system hidden partitions such as Recovery partition(usually OEM partitions) and ESP(EFI System Partition) as shown in image below.

 

In any case if the user misses to check the ‘Show Hidden...

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Symantec System Recovery support for UEFI based systems.
Sandeep_SSR | 05 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

Symantec System Recovery 2013 supports backup and restore of UEFI based Systems.

More and more computer manufacturers are shifting to the EFI based computer making.

What is UEFI?

The Unified EFI (UEFI) Specification (previously known as the EFI Specification) defines an interface between an operating system and platform firmware.

More information can be found at

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/unified-extensible-firmware-interface/efi-homepage-general-technology.html

 

With the release of new Symantec system Recovery 2013, Symantec facilitates to backup and protect the UEFI based systems and servers. This...

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