Disaster Recovery

Learn how to create full system backups and restore entire PCs or servers.

• NovaBACKUP Advanced Boot Media Instructions (20.1 and newer versions)
• Mount (and Unmount) an image backup to Restore Files in Windows
• Booting your PC from the Image Boot Media (knowing how to get to the BIOS or the Boot Device Menu at system startup)
• Add the image mount driver to NovaBACKUP 19.x, 20.x, and 21.x, if it isn't present (the image mount driver doesn't get installed by default in those versions)
• [Guide] Disaster Recovery Process Walkthrough (Video)
• Cannot Access Files On Mounted Image Backup (DR Image), Obtain file access permissions on read-only-mounted volume using Robocopy
• Confirm the validity of a DR Image by Mounting the DR Image volume as a drive letter (Virtual Drive) in Windows
• Perform a System Image Backup as VHDX (to a Network Device) (Video)
• "Create Image" function dialog will fail to create an Advanced method boot media on Win 11 24H2 (April 2025 Updated) OS, if UAC is enabled in OS (Error: oocode:CENgine::AssembleBootableImage:CreateSpecificWindowsImage:Result=General) 
• Scheduling a System Image Backup (VHDX) to a NAS (Video)
• Recovery Boot Disc Creation (Video)
• Image not mountable
• Convert NovaBACKUP System Image to a VHDX Virtual Hard Disk File (Video)
• Modify Email Notification in Image Backup (DR) and Retention jobs, these two job types do not utilize Default Settings > Notification settings
• [Guide] Boot a System Image VHDX Backup as a Virtual Machine (Video)