From previous discussions, I have cleaned up my NAS volumes and now have all of my shared folders and archive folders located on Volume 2, while I have all my backups pointed to Volume 1. I have Active Backup set to do a bare metal backup of my PC to a folder in Volume 1. After the first backup was run, I went digging through the data using the portal, and it appears that this will allow me to restore versioned copies of individual files or folders, but does not allow for a full-system restore. From what I understand, I have to set the software to create recovery media if I want to be able to restore the entire PC.
What does this recovery media do exactly? I'm guessing that if for whatever reason my PC got wiped, I'd have to get windows running again, install the active backup client, and then use the recovery media to reload all of my backed up settings? Does the recovery media somehow tell the active backup client to look at my NAS for all the backed up files and so that is why the media will be less than 1Gb if installed on a usb stick?
Finally, what is the difference between the USB media and the ISO media? I'm not sure what the DSM help means by ISO media.
What does this recovery media do exactly? I'm guessing that if for whatever reason my PC got wiped, I'd have to get windows running again, install the active backup client, and then use the recovery media to reload all of my backed up settings? Does the recovery media somehow tell the active backup client to look at my NAS for all the backed up files and so that is why the media will be less than 1Gb if installed on a usb stick?
Finally, what is the difference between the USB media and the ISO media? I'm not sure what the DSM help means by ISO media.