User`s guide

Chapter 9. Operations with archives

9.1 Validating backup archives

You can check the integrity of an archive to be certain that the archive is not damaged.

Here’s how to run a one-time validation task. For how to schedule regular archive

validation, see

7.1 Creating scheduled tasks.

1. To start the Backup Archive Validation Wizard, select Validate Backup Archive

in the Explore and Validate Archives tools group or in the Tools group or click

Validate Backup Archive on the toolbar.

2. Select the archive to validate.

3. Click Proceed to launch the validation procedure. After the validation is complete, you

will see the results window. You can cancel checking by clicking Cancel.

You must have all incremental backups belonging to the archive and the initial full backup

to check archive data integrity. If any successive backups are missing, validation is not

possible.

9.2 Exploring archives and mounting images

SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery offers two kinds of archive contents management:

mounting for images and exploring for both images and file-level archives.

Archives located on an FTP server cannot be explored or mounted.

Both operations are performed through the Backup Archives category.

Exploring images and file-level archives lets you view their contents and copy the

selected files to the hard disk.

Mounting images as virtual drives lets you access them as though they were physical

drives. This means that:

• a new disk with its own letter will appear in the drives list