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Altiris Recovery Solution

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Apr 24, 2009 03:59 PM

Migration User

In this article I will cover:

What is Recovery Solution?
Recovery Solution Terminology
How Recovery Solution Works
Installation of Recovery Solution

What is Recovery Solution?

Recovery Solution protects operating systems, applications and data that is stored on workstations/laptops from accidental deletions, and loss from hardware failure, viruses, by taking daily snapshots automatically. Users will never notice when the snapshots are been taken.

Recovery Solution Terminology and Meaning

To understand Recovery Solution you should be aware of all the terms that are used in this solution for better understanding. Here I am sharing with you terms that have been collected over the period of time. These terms are also available in Admin guide for Recovery Solution. The reason I am covering this also is so that you find all the information in one single article.

Altiris Partition	A hidden partition on a local computer that Recovery Solution uses to store snapshots. This partition is created using the Recovery Agent Partition Wizard.
Baseline Snapshot	The first Recovery Solution snapshot of a protected computer.
Cluster	A logical group of computers that consist of Recovery Solution servers.
DCOM	Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model consists of a set of system files that Recovery Solution uses when communicating with the server. DCOM provides both flexibility and added security for many applications that run on a network.
Full System Recovery (FSR)	A recovery of the whole system from scratch to any of the performed full system snapshots.
Local Recovery Database	The database where Local Recovery Agent stores information about protected data included in snapshots.
Local Recovery Golden Image	The initial image of the client computer's data performed by Altiris Recovery on Local Recovery Agent computers.
Local Database Maintenance Job	A job that verifies the integrity of stored protected data and removes old data.
Open File Manager (OFM)	Open File Manager is the technology from St. Bernard Software used by server-based Recovery Agent and in Local Recovery Pro. To synchronize (lock) the system at the start of each snapshot, OFM driver looks for a defined interval of completely no writes to disk within the specified period.
Partial Snapshot	A snapshot of only the drives you select. You can choose to include or exclude any local hard drive on your computer, whether or not it has system information on it.
Protected Computer	A user's computer (workstation, notebook, and so on) whose data is protected by installing the Recovery Agent
Recovery Agent	The software that manages backing up and restoring files on the computer.
Rollback	Restoring files as well as computer's registry from a snapshot that restores computers to a previous state. Rollback is used to repair your operating system and applications when your computer is not functioning properly.
Restore Session	The actual transference of data from a snapshot to a computer.
Server	The computer that stores the snapshots of the protected computers running in server.
Server Authentication	In server-based mode, Windows domain security is used. Your normal Windows logon account is used to give you access to Recovery Solution.
Snapshot Session	The actual transferring of data to a snapshot. If data from multiple drives are included in a snapshot at the same time, Recovery Solution considers each drive a separate snapshot session, even though it performs all the snapshots right away.
Snapshots	Snapshots contain one or more backed up files.
Storage Location	The location used by Recovery Solution or Local Recovery to store protected data.