Managing Snapshots And Recovery Points; Viewing Recovery Points; Viewing A Specific Recovery Point; Mounting A Recovery Point For A Windows Machine - Dell PowerVault DL4000 User Manual

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Managing Snapshots And Recovery Points

A recovery point, also called a snapshot, is a point-in-time copy of the folders and files for the volumes on a protected
machine, which are stored in the repository. In AppAssure 5, you can force a snapshot, temporarily pause snapshots,
and view lists of current recovery points in the repository as well as delete them if needed. Recovery points are used to
restore protected machines or to mount to a local file system.

Viewing Recovery Points

To view recovery points, in the left navigation area of the AppAssure Core Console, select the machine for which you
want to view recovery points, and then click the Recovery Points tab.

Viewing A Specific Recovery Point

To view a specific recovery point, click the right angle bracket (>) symbol next to a recovery point in the list to expand
the view.
Here, you can view more detailed information about the contents of the recovery point as well as access a variety of
operations that can be performed on the recovery point.
You can view information about the recovery points for the machine as described in the following table.
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Status Indicates current status of the recovery point.
Contents Lists the volumes included in the recovery point.
Type Defines a recovery point as either base or differential.
Size Displays the amount of space that the recovery point consumes in the repository.
Creation Date Displays the date when the recovery point was created.
Total Recovery Points Shows the total number of recovery points available for the selected agent machine.

Mounting A Recovery Point For A Windows Machine

In AppAssure, you can mount a recovery point for a Windows machine to access stored data through a local file system.
To mount a recovery point for a Windows machine:
1. In the AppAssure 5 Core Console, click the Machines tab, and then do one of the following:
– In the list of protected machines, select the machine or cluster with the recovery point you want to mount
to a local file system.
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As each protected machine is added, an alert is logged that details whether the operation
was successful or errors were logged. The level of the alert along with the transactional
date and message is displayed. If you want to remove all alerts from the page, click
Dismiss All.
Details about the machine and the data that is transferred is displayed in the Events pane.
The level of the event, transactional date, and time message is displayed.
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