HP Compaq dc5750 MT User manual

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. Daily - time specified
2. Weekly - time and day specified
3. Monthly - 1st or 15th and time specified
4. At Windows Startup - after a delay
5. 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