VirtualBoot using ShadowProtect
Enable Virtual Environment in Host Computer
1. You need to enable the virtual environment for your computer. Boot into Setup, press F9 or F10 (for HP computers) when your computer starts, before you can see the Windows logo. Select BIOS.
2. Go to Security option and choose System Security, make sure you have the VTx or AMD-V virtual environment enabled.
3. Save changes and exit. The computer will automatically restart.
Install ShadowProtect Recovery CD
1. Insert your ShadowProtect Recovery CD into the CD drive. Browse the ShadowProtect CD and open the Install folder. Double click on ShadowProtectSetup_4.2.7.exe.
2. Follow the steps of the Setup Wizard to complete the installation. Accept the end-user agreement.
3. On the Installation Type page, select Complete, this installs all the ShadowProtect components.
4. In the Installation Complete page, select Yes, I want to restart my computer now, then click Finish. If you cannot restart the computer immediately, select No, I will restart my computer later.
Note: The computer must be restarted to complete the installation.
5. Remove the ShadowProtect CD from the CD drive.
Install VirtualBox
1. Insert your VirtualBox v4.1.12 CD into the CD drive. (You can also download it from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_1_pre14 and select Windows hosts).
2. Run the software.
3. Follow the steps of the Setup Wizard. Windows may prompt you more than once if you wish to install the driver software. Click on Install.
4. On the last step of the installation wizard, untick “Start VirtualBox” and click Finish.
5. Restart your computer and do not up
Setting up ShadowProtect VirtualBoot
1. Find your ShadowProtect image that you want to boot into.
2. Right click on the ShadowProtect image (either full image or incremental) and choose VirtualBoot. Select the bootable image (C:\), and follow the setup wizard.
3. Specify the operating system for the virtual machine, this should be the same operating system used by the computer with the ShadowProtect backup image. The amount of RAM should be at least 1024MB. Click Next. It will load the settings and configurations and all the necessary drivers from the ShadowProtect image. Once it has finished, it will automatically start your virtual machine.
Note: The virtual machine will share the RAM usage you have specified, please make sure that you have enough RAM on your host computer to continuously use the virtual machine. Otherwise, if the host computer has not enough RAM to share, both virtual machine and the host computer will not function as properly intended.
Possible error
You may encounter this error when creating your virtual machine.
You need to mount and take ownership of the image. To do this:
• Right click on the ShadowProtect image and choose Mount (M). Check the “Allow Writes” box
Note: Use the Mount not quick mount option.
• Click on the Owner Tab, Select your current User Account from the list. Select “Replace owner on subcontainers and objects”.
• Save the changes made when dismounting, select to save changes to incremental file in the dismount wizard. This will create a new incremental backup image.
• Go back to step 1 and use this new image.
Configure your Virtual Machine
Network Adapter
1. Shutdown your virtual machine. On VirtualBox, right click on the virtual machine name located on the left panel. Click Settings and go to Network.
2. On the Attached to: option, choose Bridged Adapter. This will allow you to use the network settings on your current computer. If your current computer is already in the network, this will automatically connect to the network.
Network Settings
1. Turn on your virtual machine.
2. On your virtual machine, open Control Panel and click “View network status and tasks” under Network and Internet.
3. Change the network connection of your virtual machine. Click on Ethernet.
Your virtual machine should have the same IP, Gateway and DNS with the computer that had the backup image. This allows other computers in the network to automatically connect to your new virtual machine and treat it like it was the broken computer.
Continue Incremental Backups from Virtual Machine
1. From your Virtual Machine, open your ShadowProtect console and select Destinations tab. In the Destinations tab, select the destination object used to store the VM’s source backup image files, then click Edit.
Note: Do not delete the destination object or you will break the backup image chain. Rather, modify the destination object as needed to point to the current location of the backup image files used to create the VM.
2. In the Destination dialog box, modify the Destination Path to point to the location of the backup image files used to create the VM. Click OK when done.
Note: You might need to modify the network credentials (Domain, User, Password) in the destination object to access the backup image files in their new location.
3. Go back to ShadowProtect main page and select Backup tab. Select the appropriate backup job, then click Execute. ShadowProtect starts a new incremental backup in the existing chain.
Recover Backup to New Computer
The virtual machine is a temporary replacement for the broken computer. You will need to provide a new computer.
1. Setup and configure the new computer with the same computer name and other settings from the broken computer. Install the ShadowProtect CD.
2. On your ShadowProtect console. Choose Restore, browse the latest backup image created from the temporary virtual machine and follow the setup wizard.
3. When the new computer is up and running, turn off your virtual machine.
4. Again to continue your incremental backup from the new computer, follow the steps in Continue Incremental Backups. Do it from your new computer instead of your virtual computer.
5. Restart your new computer.