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 […]
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Walkthrough: Creating Disaster Recovery Using Genie Backup Manager
This walkthrough summarizes how to create a complete disaster recovery backup using Genie Backup Manager (GBM) Step 1: Create Genie Disaster Recovery Bootable disk (One time only) Requirements: Blank or empty CD or DVD disk, or USB drive. Recommended: New CD/DVD or USB drive. How to Create this boot disk? Open GBM → Click Disaster […]
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 […]
Can Genie Backup Manager Backup my Whole System and Restore It Exactly the Way It was in Case of Hard Disk Failure?
From Genie Backup Manager Version 8.0 and above, Disaster Recovery was enhanced to backup critical information, including the Windows folder, Documents and Settings, Program Files, System State, and boot information. Genie Backup Manage also offers backing up emails, programs, settings, and files and folders; making recovery after failure fast and efficient. Also, with the use […]