User guide

Validate backup task. What to validate. Location.

Archive  Validating an archive will check the integrity of all backups (recovery points) inside the

specified archive. In general, this procedure will be faster than validating the whole location.

However, it is slower than validating a specific recovery points inside this archive.

Recovery Point  To ensure that you can revert back to some specific recovery point, you can

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archive).

After selecting the validation item type, define the backup location. You can either specify a location

or location and an archive in order to retrieve the list of recovery points. If you are validating a

recovery point, the selected archive or location will be scanned for recovery points included there.

This is needed in order to pick up the recovery point(s) to be validated. Depending on the selected

validation item type, some controls will be disabled (for example, you will not see the list of recovery

points if you validate a location or archive).

You can select the location and/or archive by clicking on the Browse button. You will see a pop-up

window with the browsing options where you can define the path and/or the archive name.

As the result of the scan, you will see a tree-list (under the locations selection drop-down list) of the

virtual machines included in all archives stored in the selected location (or inside the archive, if you

specified the archive directly). You can select any of these virtual machines and move them to the

Selected Virtual Machines section.