Users Guide

Managing aging data.......................................................................................................................................................194
About Rapid Recovery data retention and archiving........................................................................................ 194
Managing retention policies.................................................................................................................................... 195
Replication.........................................................................................................................................................................199
Replication with Rapid Recovery........................................................................................................................... 199
Recovery point chains and orphans......................................................................................................................202
When replication begins.......................................................................................................................................... 202
Determining your seeding needs and strategy...................................................................................................202
Performance considerations for replicated data transfer...............................................................................204
Replicating to a self-managed target Core........................................................................................................ 205
Viewing incoming and outgoing replication.........................................................................................................208
Configuring replication.............................................................................................................................................209
Replicating to a third-party target Core.............................................................................................................. 210
Adding a machine to existing replication..............................................................................................................214
Consuming the seed drive on a target Core....................................................................................................... 215
Managing replication settings................................................................................................................................. 217
Removing replication................................................................................................................................................ 223
Recovering replicated data.....................................................................................................................................224
Chapter 5: Recovering data....................................................................................................... 225
Managing recovery ........................................................................................................................................................225
Snapshots and recovery points................................................................................................................................... 225
Managing snapshots and recovery points...........................................................................................................225
Viewing the recovery points page of a protected machine............................................................................225
Mounting a recovery point......................................................................................................................................227
Dismounting recovery points..................................................................................................................................228
Working with Linux recovery points..................................................................................................................... 229
Forcing a snapshot.................................................................................................................................................... 231
Removing recovery points....................................................................................................................................... 231
Deleting an orphaned recovery point chain........................................................................................................ 232
Migrating recovery points manually to a different repository........................................................................232
Restoring data................................................................................................................................................................. 233
About restoring data with Rapid Recovery.........................................................................................................233
Understanding Live Recovery................................................................................................................................ 233
Restoring data from recovery points................................................................................................................... 234
About restoring volumes from a recovery point................................................................................................234
Performing a restore for clusters and cluster nodes........................................................................................237
Restoring from an attached archive.....................................................................................................................238
Understanding bare metal restore for Windows machines...................................................................................238
Bare metal restore for Windows machines.........................................................................................................238
Understanding boot CD creation for Windows machines............................................................................... 243
Using the Universal Recovery Console for a BMR............................................................................................245
Performing a bare metal restore for Linux machines.......................................................................................252
Verifying a bare metal restore............................................................................................................................... 260
Chapter 6: Generating and viewing reports............................................................................... 265
About Rapid Recovery reports.................................................................................................................................... 265
Generating a report from the Core Console.......................................................................................................266
Managing scheduled reports from the Core Console...................................................................................... 269
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