1. Backup Strategy Guide
2. Bare Metal Restoration with ASR

1. Tape Drive Troubleshooting
2. Windows Media Management Troubleshooting

1. File backups with BackupAssist
2. Iomega REV backups with BackupAssist
3. External Hard Drive Backups with BackupAssist

1. Backing up Network/Shared Data
2. SNAP / NAS device backups with BackupAssist

1. The Advanced Open Files Add-on
2. Open File Backups with BackupAssist

1. Basic Exchange Server Backup and Restoration
2. Exchange Mailbox Add-on - Enhanced Individual Mailbox Backup and Restore
3. Advanced Exchange Restoration - Restoring Individual Mailboxes from the Informational Store

1. Online SQL Server Backups Using BackupAssist

1. Customizing schedules in BackupAssist

How to protect your small business from data disaster

• Introduction to tape backups
• Tape rotation systems
• Implementing a backup system

How to perform bare metal system restorations using Automated System Recovery in Windows XP & 2003

• Introduction to ASR
• Backing up and restoring with ASR
• ASR Considerations
• Additional ASR Resources

How to set up your tape drive for use with NTBackup and BackupAssist

• Interference from other backup software products
• Installing the Windows drivers
• Running Windows Backup, NTBackup
• Setting up BackupAssist

Removable Storage and Media Management in Windows

This is essential reading if you are having problems with media management and removable storage under Windows. BackupAssist will manage the media automatically, but if you are migrating from a different backup system and you are using old tapes, then you may need to do a few additional tasks. This document explains how.

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Backing up To File, HDD, DVD / CD, ZIP Drive, Removable HDD or Network

• How BackupAssist backs up to hard drives, DVDs, CDs, ZIP drives and network drives
• How to setup BackupAssist
• Recommended configurations

Using BackupAssist with the Iomega REV Drive - an excellent solution for small businesses

• How to setup BackupAssist to backup to your REV drive
• General notes and recommendations

Using BackupAssist with External USB Hard Drive Devices

• External USB HDD Introduction and Overview
• Configuring BackupAssist for use with external USB hard drives
• External USB HDD usage scenarios

How to backup network drives using UNC paths or drive mappings

• How to setup BackupAssist for network backups
• Using UNC paths
• Using mapped network drives

Using BackupAssist with SNAP Servers and other NAS Devices

• How to setup BackupAssist to backup to your SNAP Server
• How to setup BackupAssist to backup data stored on your SNAP Server
• Recommended configurations
• How to authenticate to your SNAP Server

How the Advanced Open File Add-on works to backup open files

• The Problem With Open/Locked/In-use Files
• What does the Advanced Open Files Add-on do?
• Who Needs the Advanced Open Files Add-on?
• More Information

How BackupAssist improves on NTBackup's handling of Open Files

• CHAPTER 1: Introduction and Overview
• CHAPTER 2: Snapshot Technology
• CHAPTER 3: Conventional File Copy

A step by step guide to backing up and restoring Exchange Servers 2000 and 2003

• Four steps to backing up Exchange Servers
• Three steps to restoring Exchange Servers

How to restore individual Exchange Server mailboxes manually from the Information Store (not required if using the Exchange Mailbox Add-on).

Summary:

• Using a Recovery Storage Group
• Restoring mailbox store to a Recovery Storage Group
• Merging recovered mail with regular mailboxes

How to backup and restore individual Exchange Server mailboxes quickly using our brick-level backup and offsite archiving solution

Summary:

• How the add-on works
• Restoring mailbox data

How to use BackupAssist to backup live SQL Servers

Summary:

• How The SQL Backup Works
• Setting Up BackupAssist For Online SQL Server Backups
• Remote SQL Backup
• Checking the Backup Logs
• How To Restore A Database

How to Schedule Custom Schemes - Full, Differential, Incremental backups, Overwriting / Appending Tapes

Summary:

• The capabilities of BackupAssist, the backup schedule and media pool
• 5 practical examples of customized backup schemes
• Screenshots of how to setup BackupAssist