Join the NAKIVO Backup &
Replication v10.9 Beta Program

Option 1: Bare-Metal Recovery

1. Create and run a backup job for a physical machine.
2. Once the backup job is completed successfully, go to the Jobs dashboard.
3. Click Recover > PHYSICAL MACHINE FULL RECOVERY > Bootable Media.
4. The Bootable Media wizard opens. On the Type page, choose the Create bootable flash drive option.
5. On the Destination page, Specify the IP address and credentials of the Windows machine with the previously inserted flash drive of at least 8 GB in size.
6. On the Options page, specify the Path to flash drive and click Next to begin the bootable media creation process.
7. Once the creation of the bootable media is completed, insert the flash drive into the physical machine you have backed up at step 1.
8. Boot the physical machine from the flash drive – Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop will be booted.
9. Open the NAKIVO Backup & Replication shortcut on the desktop and log in using your credentials. The Bare Metal Recovery Wizard opens.
10. On the Backup page of the wizard, choose the repository on which the backup is located, then select the backup and the recovery point. Click Next.
11. On the Disks page, select the hard drives you want to recover and choose the target drives to map each source drive to. Once you’re done with the configuration, click Recover to start the bare-metal recovery process.
12. After the recovery is completed, remove the flash drive from the machine and make sure the boot order is correct.
13. Boot the machine.
14. Verify that the disk volumes and data have been successfully recovered.

Option 2: Backup Malware Scan

1. Add Scan Servers. Navigate to Settings > Inventory.
2. Click “. . .” > Manage > Scan servers.
3. In the New Scan Servers dialog box that appears, click the + button, enter the anti-virus software information, test the connection, and then click Add.
4. Create and run a VM or physical machine backup job.
5. Create a full VM Recovery, Flash VM Boot or Universal Object Recovery job. Complete the recovery wizard and on the Options page, enable the Malware detection option and click the settings link.
6. Configure the following settings: Scan server, Scan type, If malware is detected, and Scan timeout. When done, click Apply.
7. Run the recovery job.
8. Once the job is completed successfully, verify that the malware detection result is correct.

Option 3: New Microsoft 365 Mailbox Backup Options: Litigation Hold, In-place Hold/Archive and More

Steps for Litigation Hold mailbox backup

1. Ensure that the user mailbox that you want to back up has Litigation Hold enabled (Exchange Online Plan 2 license required).
2. Create and run a Microsoft 365 backup job in NAKIVO Backup & Replication with the Back up Litigation hold items checkbox selected.
3. Once the backup job is completed, create a recovery job to restore the whole Litigation Hold folder or certain items from that folder to the original location.
4. Verify that the items have been recovered successfully.

Steps for In-Place Hold mailbox backup

1. Make sure In-place Hold is created in Microsoft 365 (Compliance Management > In-Place eDiscovery & Hold > Create a case > create holds).
2. Create and run a Microsoft 365 backup job in NAKIVO Backup & Replication with the Back up In-Place hold items checkbox selected.
3. Once the backup job is completed, create a recovery job to restore the whole In-Place Hold folder or certain items to the original location.]
4. Verify that the items have been recovered successfully.

Steps for In-place Archive mailbox backup

1. Enable In-Place Archive for the user mailbox that you want to back up and move some emails to In-Place Archive.
2. Create and run a Microsoft 365 backup job in NAKIVO Backup & Replication with the Back up In-Place archive checkbox selected.
3. Once the backup job is completed, create a recovery to restore the whole In-Place Archive folder or certain items/folders to the original location.
4. Verify that the items have been recovered successfully.

Steps for Contact list backup

1. Create and run a Microsoft 365 backup job in NAKIVO Backup & Replication with the Back up Contacts checkbox selected.
2. Once the backup job is completed, create and run a recovery job to restore the whole contact list or certain items to the original location.
3. Verify that the items have been recovered successfully.

Steps for Public folders backup

1. Make sure that the owners of the public folders includes the target user.
2. Create and run a Microsoft 365 backup job in NAKIVO Backup & Replication with the Back up public folders checkbox selected.
3. Once the backup job is completed, create and run a recover job to restore the whole Public folders or certain items/folders to the original location.
4. Verify that the items have been recovered successfully.

Option 4: Direct Recovery from Tape

Part 1

1. If no tape device is discovered in NAKIVO Backup & Replication, go to Settings > Tape to add a device.
2. Before adding a new tape device to NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you should deploy a Transporter or add an existing Transporter on the machine that is physically connected to the tape device. For details, refer to the Adding Robotic Tape Libraries or VTLs page.
3. Add a tape library (virtual or physical) or a standalone tape drive by going to Devices and clicking Add.
4. After the tape library or tape drive is successfully discovered, scan the cartridges. At least one cartridge should be empty.
5. Create a VMware vSphere VM/Hyper-V VM/Nutanix AHV VM/physical machine backup job and run the job to create a full recovery point.
6. Run the job one more time to create an incremental recovery point.
7. Create a backup copy job to tape using the backup just created as the source. Run the backup copy job to the tape library.
8. After the backup copy job to tape is successfully completed, go to Jobs and select the corresponding backup job. Go to Recover > VM recovery from backup. Alternatively, you can go to Settings > Tape to choose the backup and recovery point.
9. In the recovery wizard that opens, choose one of the following views to find the backup and select the full or incremental recovery point:
   • In the Jobs & Groups view, select one or more backups created by the corresponding job in the left pane and select a recovery point for each backup in the right pane.
   • In the Tape view, select one or more tape backups in the left pane and select a recovery point for each backup in the right pane.
10. Select the destination for recovering the VM depending on your environment:
    • For VMware vSphere VM backups: Select an ESXi host within vCenter or a standalone ESXi.
    • For Microsoft Hyper-V VM backups: Select a Hyper-V cluster or a standalone Hyper-V host.
    • For Nutanix AHV VM backups: Select a Nutanix AHV cluster.
    • For physical machine backups: Select an ESXi host within vCenter or a standalone ESXi.

Part 2 (Obligatory)

1. In NAKIVO Backup & Replication, go to Settings > Tape.
2. Click the tape library or standalone drive. You have to see 3 entities: Devices/Tapes/Backups.
3. Click the Tapes entity. You will see the list of cartridges.
4. Check the Capacity column and verify that cartridge capacity corresponds to real-time values, that is, total cartridge capacity in non-compressed mode/used by all backups/free space on a cartridge (total minus used).