Introduction Genie Timeline (GTL) provides a robust Disaster Recovery feature to perform system-level backups. This guide walks you through creating a Disaster Recovery backup, setting up a bootable disk, and restoring your system when needed. Step 1: Create the Disaster Recovery Backup Launch the Genie Timeline application on your computer. Hover over Manage Backup […]
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Disaster Recovery Strategies
To minimize recovery time objective (RTO), is it essential to adopt a disaster recovery strategy to achieve your goals. To ensure faster RTO, it is recommended to: Perform Disaster Recovery backup on a newly installed machine with all important programs installed on the system: This ensures a clean and consistent system recovery Keep your Disaster Recovery […]
Walkthrough: System-Level Backup (Disaster Recovery) with Genie Backup Manager
Introduction Genie Backup Manager (GBM) provides a robust Disaster Recovery feature to perform system-level backups. This guide walks you through creating a Disaster Recovery backup, setting up a bootable disk, and restoring your system when needed. Step 1: Create Genie Disaster Recovery Bootable disk (One time only) Requirements: Blank or empty CD or DVD […]
How to Schedule the Disaster Recovery Backup Job of Genie Backup Manager
Open your Windows Task Scheduler. (Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Task Scheduler) From the left side panel of the Windows Task Scheduler, click Task Scheduler library. From the right side panel of the Windows Task Scheduler, click Create Task. The Create Task wizard will be shown, and you will need to fill it as follows: […]
How to Exclude Files From Disaster Recovery Backup in Genie Timeline
SYMPTOMS Genie Timeline (GTL) backs up files that you wish to be excluded in the Disaster Recovery backup. REASON Disaster Recovery does not follow the normal Auto-Exclude rules which you can find under Tools → Preferences. This is important to avoid excluding essential files for the full system restore by mistake. However, these rules […]
Genie Backup Manager 9.0 Disaster Recovery Screenshot Tour
This is the first screen of the Disaster Recovery wizard of Genie Backup Manager (GBM). The next step is to locate the Disaster Recovery backup itself (.gbp file). Also, there are various helpful utilities on the right-side panel that may be required in order to perform a successful recovery. Using the Browse for file button, navigate to […]
Network Drive or Raid Configured Drive Is Not Accessible Inside the Disaster Recovery Environment of Genie Backup Manager
SYMPTOMS After booting from Genie Backup Manager Disaster Recovery bootable disc, you can’t see your backup drive. Or you can only see the drive letter and icon, but double-clicking it does nothing or shows the drive is empty. CAUSE Your backup drive is RAID configured, and you will need to include that RAID .inf […]
Genie Timeline Disaster Recovery Screenshot Tour
This is the first screen of the Disaster Recovery wizard of Genie Timeline (GTL). Press the Start Disaster Recovery button to begin with the restore. If your backup is stored on the root folder of the drive, then Genie Timeline will be able to detect it. If not, please use the Browse for backup button […]
Preparing for Disaster Recovery Restore on a New Hard Drive
SYMPTOMS If you receive a new storage drive, and wish to perform Disaster Recovery restore on it, you will need to start by initiating that drive and creating a new NTFS formatted partition on it. CAUSE Typically, newly purchased internal hard drives comes with no active partition, and in order to have successful Disaster […]
Disaster Recovery Restore Troubleshooting
My device(s) is/are not recognized SYMPTOMS This occurs when you have a RAID as your local hard drive, you are unable view it from the browse for folder, you get unable to connect to webserver when opening the web browser, or view network status does not display your Ethernet card. CAUSE The drivers are non-native […]
