HP Backup and Recovery Manager User Guide Version 1.0 Table of Contents Introduction Installation How to Install Language Support HP Backup and Recovery Manager Reminders Scheduled Backups What Can Be Scheduled? When Can Backups Be Scheduled? How to Create Schedules How to Delete Schedules Manual Backups How to Back Up Individual Files and Folders How to Create Entire Drive Backups How to Create Recovery Points How to Manage Recovery Points Saving Backups to Network or CD/DVD Recovery Recovery Media Creator How to Recover Backup Tips Expert Options Notebook Requirements HP Recovery Partition Removal Wizard Why HP Recommends Users Preserve the Recovery Partition Why Some Users May Desire to Remove the Recovery Partition How to Remove the Recovery Partition Uninstall What is Removed How to Uninstall Glossary Entire Drive Backup Initial Recovery Point Recovery Point Recovery Partition Recovery Disc Set Introduction The HP Backup and Recovery Manager is an easy-to-use, versatile application that allows you to back up and recover the primary hard drive on the PC. The application works within Windows to create backups of Windows, all applications, and all data files. Backups can be scheduled to occur automatically at designated intervals, or they can be initiated manually. Important files can be archived separately from regular backups. Recovery Points and File Backups can be copied to CD or DVD discs, if the appropriate hardware is installed, while all backups can be copied to network or secondary hard disks. All of these features make the HP Backup and Recovery Manager a necessary tool to ensure the security of your data. Installation The HP Backup and Recovery Manager is available in two forms: 1. Shipped preinstalled on the computer 2. Shipped with HP add-on hardware How to Install When preinstalled on the computer, HP Backup and Recovery Manager is automatically part of the Recovery Partition and when created, the Recovery Disc Set. This application is already resident on the computer and will be automatically deployed again when the system is recovered. When included as part of an HP hardware purchase, the HP Backup and Recovery Manager is easily installed by running the setup.exe application from the CD. Language Support HP supports the following languages for the HP Backup and Recovery Manager: Arabic Brazilian Portuguese Czech Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Simplified Chinese Spanish Swedish Traditional Chinese Turkish HP Backup and Recovery Manager The HP Backup and Recovery Manager is a highly versatile application for ensuring the continued security of the system hard drive. Backups can be scheduled to occur automatically at designated intervals, or they can be initiated manually. Recovery Points are created to back up the entire system · incrementally Entire Drive Backups are created to back up the entire system in · a single archive. File Backups are created to back up individual files. · Recovery Points and File Backups can be saved to CD or DVD, if the appropriate hardware is installed, while all backups can be copied to network or secondary hard disks. Reminders Upon installation, the HP Backup and Recovery Manager will remind the user to create the Recovery Disc Set immediately to ensure that there is a backup in a place other than the primary hard drive. This reminder can be delayed for a week at a time. On the fourth display, an additional option appears. Selecting this option disables the reminder permanently. Note: HP highly recommends creating the Recovery Disc Set immediately. Scheduled Backups The HP Backup and Recovery Manager provides a convenient scheduling utility. Once configured, scheduled backups require no user intervention. HP recommends that the backup schedule be created immediately to ensure continued system and data security. What Can Be Scheduled? Any backup that can be created manually can be scheduled. These include: · · · Recovery Points Entire Drive Backups File Backups When Can Backups Be Scheduled? HP Backup and Recovery Manager provides a variety of scheduling options: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Daily - time specified Weekly - time and day specified Monthly - 1st or 15th and time specified At Windows Startup - after a delay On Docking - For select HP Notebooks How to Create Schedules Convenient schedules can be created easily with the HP Backup and Recovery Manager: 1. On the Windows Start Menu, select HP Backup and Recovery folder. 2. Select HP Backup Scheduler. 3. Follow the Backup Scheduler wizard to complete the schedule. How to Delete Schedules Once created, the HP Backup and Recovery Manager schedule entries cannot be modified. If a modification is desired, change the schedule by first deleting the existing entry, then creating new entries. To delete schedule entries: 1. On the Windows Start Menu, select HP Backup and Recovery. 2. Select HP Backup Scheduler. 3. After the Welcome screen for HP Backup Scheduler, a screen appears showing all of the schedule entries. 4. Select the entry to delete. 5. Select Delete scheduled backup. Click Next to continue. 6. Confirm the deletion. Manual Backups The HP Backup and Recovery Manager allows the user to create backups manually or automatically. The manual backup option is useful for creating single archives; however, HP encourages users to create a regular automated backup schedule. How to Back Up Individual Files and Folders HP Backup and Recovery Manager allows the user to backup individual files and folders to a network, hard drive, or CD/DVD disc. 1. On the Windows Start Menu, select HP Backup and Recovery. 2. Select the HP Backup and Recovery Manager. 3. After the Welcome Screen, select Backup to protect system settings and important files. Click Next to continue. 4. Select Backup individual files and folders. Click Next to continue. 5. Select Backup selected files from most common locations, and click Next to continue. 6. Select the types of files to backup. 7. Add security settings, if desired. 8. Select the destination for the backup. 9. Follow the wizard to finish creating the backup. Note: Advanced Backup is for experienced users and is not covered within this document. How to Create Entire Drive Backups Entire Drive Backups create a full backup of the entire primary hard drive. The HP Backup and Recovery Manager provides a simple interface for managing this process. 1. On the Windows Start Menu, select HP Backup and Recovery. 2. Select the HP Backup and Recovery Manager. 3. After the Welcome Screen, select Backup to protect system settings and important files. Click Next to continue. 4. Select Backup entire hard drive. Click Next to continue. 5. After the Welcome screen, select the destination for the backup and click Next to continue. 6. Add security settings, if desired. 7. Follow the wizard to finish creation. How to Create Recovery Points The HP Backup and Recovery Manager provides a simple interface for creating new Recovery Points. 1. On the Windows Start Menu, select HP Backup and Recovery. 2. Select the HP Backup and Recovery Manager. 3. After the Welcome Screen, select Backup to protect system settings and important files. Click Next to continue. 4. Select Create or manage Recovery Points. Click Next to continue. 5. If there are already Recovery Points on the system, select Create New Recovery Point. Click Next to continue, otherwise follow the wizard to create a Recovery Point. 6. Follow the wizard to create a Recovery Point. How to Manage Recovery Points The HP Backup and Recovery Manager allows the Recovery Points created on the hard drive to be deleted or moved to a CD or DVD to free up hard disk space. To access the Recovery Point Manager and manage Recovery Points: 1. On the Windows Start Menu, select HP Backup and Recovery. 2. Select the HP Backup and Recovery Manager. 3. After the Welcome Screen, select Backup to protect system settings and important files. Click Next to continue. 4. Select Create or manage Recovery Points. Click Next to continue. 5. After the Welcome Screen, there may be a warning screen stating that files over certain sizes may not be backed up to CD or DVD. By default, this is 600MB for CDs and 4GB for DVDs. Click Next to continue. 6. Select the location of the Recovery Points to manage. For Recovery Points On another hard disk or On network, select Yes to use the current folder and click Next to continue. 7. Select Manage Existing Recovery Points on the hard drive. Click Next to continue. Note: if there are no Recovery Points, this option does not appear. 8. It is possible to delete all Recovery Points back to a specific time or move all Recovery Points to CD or DVD disc with appropriate hardware. Select an option and follow the wizard to finish. Note: As Recovery Points are incremental, deleting one Recovery Point also deletes all subsequent Recovery Points. Each Recovery Point location is independent of the others, as well. For example, Recovery Points created on the network are incremental, but independent of Recovery Points stored on an external hard drive. If a Recovery Point is deleted from the network location, this affects only the Recovery Points in that network location and not other locations. Saving Backups to Network or CD/DVD Recovery Points, Entire Drive Backups and File Backups may be saved to a Network Drive, while Recovery Points and File Backups may be burned to CD/DVD, depending on hardware available. These discs can be used with the Recovery Disc Set created by Recovery Media Creator to recover the system fully, up to the moment the last archive was created. File Backups may be saved to network, secondary hard drive or CD/DVD during the backup creation process, while Entire Drive Backups may be saved to Network or secondary hard drive. 1. On the Windows Start Menu, select HP Backup and Recovery. 2. Select the HP Backup and Recovery Manager. 3. After the Welcome Screen, select Backup to protect system settings and important data files. Click Next to continue. 4. Select Backup individual files and folders for File Backups, or select Backup entire hard drive to create an Entire Drive Backup. Click Next to continue. 5. Follow the wizard to back up to a network drive, secondary hard drive or, for File Backups only, create CDs or DVDs. During Recovery Point creation, Recovery Points may be saved to a network location; however, CD or DVD archives are created separately from that process. 1. On the Windows Start Menu, select HP Backup and Recovery. 2. Select the HP Backup and Recovery Manager. 3. After the Welcome Screen, select Backup to protect system settings and important files. Click Next to continue. 4. Select Create or manage Recovery Points. Click Next to continue. 5. After the Welcome screen, select Manage existing Recovery Points on the hard drive. Click Next to continue. 6. Select Move all Recovery Points to CD/DVD. Click Next to continue. 7. Follow the wizard to complete creation of the CD or DVD discs. Recovery The ability to recover from a system problem and to retrieve a file from a backup are important elements of an overall data security program. The HP Backup and Recovery Manager provides a simple interface for recovering individual files or the entire PC hard drive. Recovery may be performed from a Recovery Disc Set or the Recovery Partition. Recovery Media Creator Creating a Recovery Disc Set is one of the most important things that can be done for PC hard drive security. To access the Recovery Media Creator: 1. Launch HP Backup and Recovery Manager. 2. After the Welcome Screen, select Create factory software recovery CDs or DVDs to recover the system. 3. Follow the wizard. This wizard makes it possible to create the recovery discs directly or to save the discs to the hard drive as ISO images. These ISO images can be saved to disc later using another application. Note: This application cannot burn these ISO images to disc once saved to hard drive but will create the Recovery Disc Set and any other backups or Recovery Point discs. The HP Restore Plus! CDs and the Initial Recovery Point may be saved to disc as often as necessary, but only a single copy of the Microsoft Windows CD can be created, due to licensing constraints. Note: This applies if HP Backup and Recovery Manager was preinstalled. How to Recover The HP Backup and Recovery Manager provides two basic recovery methods. The first, recovery of files and folders, operates in Windows. The second, PC Recovery, requires a reboot to the Recovery Partition or from the Recovery Disc Set. Recovery of Files and Folders Within Windows, the HP Backup and Recovery Manager provides the capability of recovering individual files and folder from a backup. 1. On the Windows Start Menu, select HP Backup and Recovery. 2. Select the HP Backup and Recovery Manager. 3. After the Welcome Screen, select Recover important files or ...