Users Guide

○ For Write Buffer Size, enter the buffer size you want to reserve for writing archived data to the cloud.
○ For Read Buffer Size, enter the block size you want to reserve for reading archived data from the cloud.
b. Click OK.
● To return the cloud configuration to the following default settings, click Reset.
○ Request Timeout: 01:30 (minutes and seconds)
○ Write Buffer Size: 8388608 (bytes)
○ Read Buffer Size: 8388608 (bytes)
Removing a cloud account
If you discontinue your cloud service, or decide to stop using it for a particular Core, you may want to remove your cloud
account from the Core Console. Complete the steps in the following procedure to remove a cloud account.
1. On the Rapid Recovery Core Console icon bar, click the
More icon and then select Cloud Accounts.
The Cloud Accounts page appears.
2. Next to the cloud account you want to edit, click the drop-down menu, and then click Remove.
3. In the Delete Account dialog box, click Yes to confirm that you want to remove the account.
4. If the cloud account is currently in use, a second dialog box prompts you to confirm that you still want to remove it. Click
Yes to confirm.
NOTE: Removing an account that is currently in use causes all archive jobs scheduled for this account to fail.
Archiving
This section describes business cases for creating an archive, how to create an archive using Rapid Recovery, and where you
can store it.
Understanding archives
Retention policies enforce the periods for which backups are stored on short-term (fast and expensive) media. Sometimes
certain business and technical requirements mandate extended retention of these backups, but use of fast storage is cost
prohibitive. Therefore, this requirement creates a need for long-term (slow and cheap) storage. Businesses often use long-term
storage for archiving both compliance and non-compliance data. The archive feature in Rapid Recovery is used to support the
extended retention for compliance and non-compliance data; and it is also used to seed replication data to a remote replica core.
Once an archive is created, it can be used in the following ways:
● An archive can be mounted as a file system for simple file or folder recovery.
● An archive can be used as the source for a bare metal restore.
● An archive can be imported into a repository.
Creating an archive
You can use this procedure to create a one-time or scheduled archive.
If you plan on creating an archive to a cloud location, first add your cloud account to the Rapid Recovery Core Console. For
more information, see Adding a cloud account on page 80.
A one-time archive is an archive created on-demand for a specified machine. A scheduled archive is an archive that
automatically recurs on the date and time you specify in the wizard. Having the ability to schedule a recurring archive
accommodates situations where you would want frequent archives of a machine to be saved, without the inconvenience of
needing to manually create the archives each time.
1. On the button bar of the Rapid Recovery Core Console, click
Archive.
The Archive Wizard opens.
2. On the Archive Type page of the wizard, select one of the following options:
● One-time archive
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