Managing Recovery; About Recovery Points; About System Information; Viewing System Information - Dell PowerVault DL4000 User Manual

1. Navigate to the AppAssure 5 Core, and then click the Configuration tab.
2. From the Manage option, click Events.
3. Click Change.
The Event Retention dialog box is displayed.
4. In the Store Events For text box, select the duration for retaining information about events.
5. Click OK.

Managing Recovery

The AppAssure 5 Core can instantly restore data or recover machines to physical or virtual machines from the recovery
points. The recovery points contain agent volume snapshots captured at the block level. These snapshots and are
application aware, meaning all open transactions and rolling transaction logs are completed and caches are flushed to
disk before creating the snapshot. Using application-aware snapshots in tandem with Recovery Assure, enables the
Core to perform several types of recoveries, including:
• Recovery of files and folders
• Recovery of data volumes, using Live Recovery
• Recovery of data volumes for Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server, using Live Recovery
• Bare metal restore, using Universal Recovery
• Bare metal restore to dissimilar hardware, using Universal Recovery
• Ad-hoc and continuous export to virtual machines

About Recovery Points

Recovery points are a collection of snapshots of various disk volumes. For example, C:\, D:\, and E:\. Snapshots are used
to capture and store the state of a disk volume at a given point in time while the applications that generate the data are
still running, so as to use it to perform instant recovery in the event of an outage or failure.
The snapshots that are captured by AppAssure 5 are done so at the block level and are application aware. This means
that all open transactions and rolling transaction logs are completed and caches are flushed to disk before creating the
snapshot.
AppAssure 5 uses a low-level volume filter driver, which attaches to the mounted volumes and then tracks all block-
level changes for the next impending snapshot. Microsoft Volume Shadow Services (VSS) is used to facilitate
application crash consistent snapshots.

About System Information

AppAssure 5 lets you view information about the AppAssure 5 core that includes system information, local and mounted
volumes, and AppAssure engine connections.
If you want to dismount individual or all recovery points that are mounted locally on a core, you can accomplish this from
the Mount option on the Tools tab. For more information about dismounting recovery points, see
Recovery Points and Dismounting All Recovery

Viewing System Information

To view system information
1. Navigate to the AppAssure 5 Core, and then select the Tools tab.
2. From the Tools option, click System Info.
Points.
Dismounting Select
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