Instantrecovery User Guide
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InstantRecovery User Guide Table of Contents Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 1 Introducing InstantRecovery ....................................................................................................... 1 Product Features.......................................................................................................................... 2 System Requirements.................................................................................................................. 2 Notes about Microsoft BitLocker/TPM ...................................................................................... 3 Notes about Windows Vista and Later .................................................................................. 4 Notes about Windows Update ................................................................................................ 4 Getting Started ................................................................................................................................ 7 Getting Started ............................................................................................................................ 7 Concepts .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Introduction to Snapshots ........................................................................................................... 9 Creating Snapshots................................................................................................................ 10 Introduction to Data Anchoring ................................................................................................ 11 Why Use Data Anchoring? ................................................................................................... 12 Working with Snapshots ........................................................................................................... 13 Introduction to Archives ........................................................................................................... 15 Introduction to Schedules ......................................................................................................... 16 Introduction to Snapshot Groups .............................................................................................. 16 Introduction to Freeze ............................................................................................................... 17 Using InstantRecovery .................................................................................................................. 19 Creating a Recovery Snapshot .................................................................................................. 19 Setting Anchored Data .............................................................................................................. 22 iii InstantRecovery User Guide Controlling an InstantRecovery Task ....................................................................................... 24 Snapshots ...................................................................................................................................... 29 Creating an Empty Snapshot ..................................................................................................... 29 Creating/Updating a Snapshot .................................................................................................. 31 Renaming a Snapshot or Changing its Description .................................................................. 36 Importing a Snapshot ................................................................................................................ 39 Exporting a Snapshot ................................................................................................................ 43 Password-Protecting Snapshots ................................................................................................ 47 Removing a Snapshot ............................................................................................................... 51 Calculating the Size of a Snapshot............................................................................................ 54 Freezing a Snapshot .................................................................................................................. 57 Unfreezing a Snapshot .............................................................................................................. 59 Reverting a Snapshot to Its Previous Frozen State ................................................................... 62 Booting to Another Snapshot .................................................................................................... 63 Boot to Snapshot ................................................................................................................... 63 Pre-boot Hotkey without BitLocker ...................................................................................... 65 Pre-boot Hotkey with BitLocker ........................................................................................... 67 Schedules ...................................................................................................................................... 69 Creating a New Schedule .......................................................................................................... 69 Modifying a Schedule ............................................................................................................... 75 Renaming a Schedule ................................................................................................................ 77 Removing a Schedule ............................................................................................................... 79 Logs............................................................................................................................................... 81 iv Table of Contents Viewing the Activity Log ......................................................................................................... 81 Clearing the Log Entries ........................................................................................................... 84 Options .......................................................................................................................................... 87 General Options ........................................................................................................................ 87 Boot Menu Options ................................................................................................................... 88 Task Options ............................................................................................................................. 90 Schedule Options ...................................................................................................................... 91 Logging Options ....................................................................................................................... 92 Archive Options ........................................................................................................................ 93 Freeze Options .......................................................................................................................... 95 Advanced ...................................................................................................................................... 99 Command Line Interface .......................................................................................................... 99 Opening the Command Line Interface in Interactive Mode ................................................. 99 Running the Command Line Interface in Single Command Mode ...................................... 99 Getting Logging Info for Snapshots and the InstantRecovery Service ................................. 99 ANCHOR Command .......................................................................................................... 100 ARCHIVE Command ......................................................................................................... 100 AREMOVE Command ....................................................................................................... 101 ARENAME Command ....................................................................................................... 101 BATCH Command ............................................................................................................. 102 BOOT Command ................................................................................................................ 102 CONFIG command ............................................................................................................. 103 CONNECT Command ........................................................................................................ 104 v InstantRecovery User Guide COPY Command ................................................................................................................ 105 DESC Command ................................................................................................................. 106 DISCONNECT Command.................................................................................................. 106 EXIT Command 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