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Image, folder, whole Mac and virtual machine backups, Microsoft 365, Entra ID and Google Workspace backup, immutable storage, test restores, recovery, archiving and self-service restores.

  1. 1 Backup overview How Tenvara backs up devices, Macs, Microsoft 365, Entra ID and Google Workspace, how backups are protected and proven, how the Backup area and its sidebar are laid out, and how to read the overview page.
  2. 2 Setting up backup Choose where backups are stored, keep a recovery copy of the encryption key, check the backup helper builds, set up backup emails, and link the Microsoft 365 app registration.
  3. 3 Protecting devices Turn on backup for one device, for many at once from any device list, or automatically, choose volumes, folders and virtual machines, leave files out, pause backups, spread start times through the night, and keep the backups of removed and retired devices.
  4. 4 Schedules and retention Set when device and Microsoft 365 backups run and how long recovery points are kept, as defaults and per customer, site, device or tenant, and keep chosen backups longer or pin a recovery point.
  5. 5 Microsoft 365 backup Connect customer tenants, read each tenant's backup state, choose which people, sites and teams are protected with rules for new ones, leave out folders and libraries, see coverage across tenants, back up leavers, set how many tenants back up at once, and fix tenants that refuse sign-in.
  6. 6 Jobs Follow every backup, restore, download, directory sync and maintenance run with its live speed, see why a queued job waits, read its log, see resumed parts, restarts and skipped items, and cancel it if needed.
  7. 7 Restoring Find what to bring back with one search across every backup, pick it at the right point in time, and restore it through one restore sheet to where it was, somewhere else, a download or a share link.
  8. 8 Backup alerts and troubleshooting The alerts backup raises, what raised each one and how to retry from the alert, when they clear, what stays quiet on purpose, and how to fix failed, overdue, helper, interrupted, slow and disk space problems.
  9. 9 Storage locations and immutable backups Keep backups in more than one place, lock them with S3 Object Lock, protect deletions with a recovery window and a second administrator, watch storage growth, keep a healthy local copy, and seed a first backup by carrying the disk.
  10. 10 Test restores, boot checks and malware scans Prove backups work with scheduled test restores and a PDF report, start image backups on a sandbox host to prove they boot with nothing installed in the machine, and scan what a restore would write before it is written.
  11. 11 Bare metal recovery Make recovery media for a customer, start a dead or replacement machine from it, and restore a whole machine from an image backup onto the same or different hardware, or into a virtual machine.
  12. 12 Instant recovery and standbys Start a machine straight from its backup in minutes, make it permanent while it runs, and keep warm standbys up to date after every backup for failover in seconds.
  13. 13 Whole Mac backup Back up a whole Mac (every account, home folder, application and setting) from an APFS snapshot, give the agent Full Disk Access, and choose what is left out.
  14. 14 Google Workspace and Entra ID backup Back up customers' Google Workspace domains (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Contacts and shared drives) with your own service account, and back up a Microsoft 365 tenant's Entra ID directory to see what changed and put it back.
  15. 15 Archiving and legal hold Keep a customer's mail for a set number of years and search it, put a customer or mailbox on legal hold so nothing is pruned or deleted, and run eDiscovery cases with PST or EML exports and a chain of custody.
  16. 16 Self-service restores in the portal Let your customers' people search and restore their own mail, OneDrive files, calendar entries, contacts and computer files from the customer portal, within limits you set per customer, with everything they do logged.
  17. 17 Searching and browsing backups Browse a device's or a person's backups like Explorer or Outlook with a time slider, show deleted items, compare versions, preview files and gather items from several points in a basket.
  18. 18 Restoring from anywhere and sharing Start a restore from a ticket, a device, a Microsoft 365 user, a customer or Cmd+K, restore to another site, device or a new mailbox, and share a restore with a contact through a link and an emailed code.
  19. 19 Resuming large and interrupted backups How big backups carry on after a reboot, sleep, crash, server restart or update instead of starting again, how very large drives are backed up in parts in steady memory, how large files are copied in parts with a disk guard, and how big OneDrives and sites download several files at once.
  20. 20 Skipped items Why a backup can be OK with a few skipped items, how Tenvara tells a handful of refused emails or locked files from a real problem, where to see what was skipped, how to accept or exclude known skips, and when it alerts.
  21. 21 Sandbox hosts Choose the Proxmox VE nodes and Hyper-V hosts that run machines from backups (boot checks, instant recovery and standbys), use a host that is not backed up itself, share a host for every customer's backup tests, and prove a host works with a test.
  22. 22 Application-aware and SQL Server backups How Windows volume images are made application-consistent for SQL Server, SQL Server log truncation and log backups, the log warning, restoring a database into its instance or as files, and running scripts before and after a backup.
  23. 23 Disk backups and partitions How Tenvara names the partitions inside a disk or volume image by what they are, which ones open as folders, and how to restore single files or a whole partition from them.
  24. 24 The first backups queue New Microsoft 365 tenants take their first full backup in an order you choose, in slots of their own, so tenants already backed up stay on time. Reorder the queue, run one next, hold and release, see why a tenant is held and fix it, and read the estimates.
  25. 25 A recovery copy of the encryption key Download a copy of the backup encryption key sealed with a passphrase you choose, after an authenticator code and another administrator's approval, print a recovery sheet, check that your copy opens, and keep it somewhere safe.
  26. 26 Backups through restarts and updates A backup cut short by a restart, a reboot or an update of Tenvara is interrupted, not failed. It carries on from its checkpoint, overdue backups catch up a few at a time after a long stop, and updates wait for running backups.
  27. 27 Restoring SQL Server databases and point-in-time restore Take SQL Server log backups with a device's images, see each database's restorable window, and restore a database straight into its instance, as a new database or over the original, as an image has it or to any point in time.
  28. 28 Repository health, healing and verification Read a repository's health on Backup > Repositories, see how damaged data heals from the second copy or the source, verify stored data on a schedule or now, compact the index, and keep maintenance on time.
  29. 29 Spreading backups across the night Turn on Spread backups automatically so a customer's devices start one after another through a window under each site's upload budget, read tonight's plan, see why a backup waits for bandwidth, and hold your own server's uploads to a window and budget.
  30. 30 Second copies and the copy list Keep every repository copied to another location with an ordered copy list, read the primary and secondary locations, see which repositories copy where and which are not copied, swap the primary with Make primary, and check a copy against its source.