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 ano her hard disk
 or 
On network,
 select 
Yes
 to use the current folder and 
click Next to continue. 
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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.