Version 19.2 introduced a new Disaster Recovery boot disk (DRBoot) for restoring an Image Backup of a System Partition.
This article will show the steps required to perform a Restore from an Image Backup file (Full - .NDF, Differential - .NDD, or Incremental - .NDI)
Things you will need:
- An image backup that is on another internal, or external drive you can access:
Here is an article on how to create scheduled backups with retention policies. It includes how to schedule an image backup for disaster recovery scenarios.
[Guide] Standard Backup Schedule with Retention - A bootable recovery disc
Here is an article on how to create a bootable recovery disc using simple or advanced mode.
Simple Mode
Advanced Mode
Note: The new Disaster Recovery environment does not support restoring to a smaller drive than the original drive at this time.
The first thing you are going to do is start the computer.
You will need to know which key on your PC's keyboard to press during the startup screen to enter your "Boot Device Menu". From there you will select your optical CD drive or USB flash drive as the first drive in your boot-up sequence. This will allow your system to access the recovery boot disk media which you will have already created, rather than attempting to boot from your hard disk.
Note: We DO NOT recommend using a DVD disc as your recovery boot disk, as a number of DVD drives experience problems when attempting to use bootable disc media.
Here is an article that explains how to boot from your pc:
Booting your PC from the recovery boot disk
Here is an all-in-one overview:
Here is a video going through all the steps:
All steps:
- 1) Confirm your display and networking settings needed to start the environment using the Image Backup Control Panel dialog. Click [OK].
- 2) Choose "Start Restoration"
- 3) Locate the Image Backup File (.NDF) to restore from. Click [Open].
- 4) Select the Source drive
- 5) Select the Target drive
- 6) Choose [Start drive restoration] after selecting a Source and Target drive
- 7) Confirm the settings. Click [Start].
- 8) If data exists on the Target drive, a dialog will appear confirming you wish to "Completely delete target drive". Choose [Delete] to replace the contents of the Target drive.
- 9) The Restore process will start and display the progress with some status information estimations
- 10) A Dialog will appear when the restore process has completed. Click [Close] to finish.
- 11) Close the Drive restoration window [X]
- 12) A dialog will appear asking if you wish to restart the computer, select [Yes]