CREATING AND RUNNING AN UNATTENDED BACKUP JOB

6. When do you use the Advanced restore setting Restore Security and when is itavailable?

Lesson Summary

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Before restoring data, you should ensure that you have access to the backupmedia. You should also document the restoration.

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The Backup Utility allows you to restore individual files and folders, an entirebackup job, or a backup set.

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The Backup Utility’s advanced settings for restoring data vary depending on thetype of backup media from which you are restoring.

Lesson 4: Using the Automated System Recovery Wizard

In this lesson, you learn how to use the Automated System Recovery Wizard, whichhelps you back up your system partition so that you can restore it in case it is lost ordamaged because of some type of disaster.After this lesson, you will be able to

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Explain the use of the Automated System Recovery Wizard

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Use the Automated System Recovery Wizard to create an automated recovery disk

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Copy the System and Software files from backup by using Recovery ConsoleEstimated lesson time: 15 minutes

Overview of the Automated System Recovery Wizard

The Automated System Recovery Wizard is one of the three wizards provided by theBackup Utility (see Figure 20-8). Automated System Recovery (ASR) is intended toallow you to restore your computer after a major failure. The Automated System Recov-ery Wizard creates a backup in two parts:

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A floppy disk (referred to as a system recovery disk) that contains hard drive con-figuration information

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A full backup of your local system partition on tape or as a file located on a net-work serverAfter creating the system recovery disk and full backup, you can boot your computer byusing the disk and run an automated system recovery process to restore your computer.

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Figure 20-8 Use Advanced mode to access the Automated System Recovery Wizard.