Administrator Guide

Item Description

Schedule If scheduled, shows a brief description of the

schedule.

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Add a Note to a Restore Point

Edit a Note for a Restore Point

View a Restore Point Report

The Restore Point Report shows the run time messages for the backup job that created the restore point.

1. In the Server Connections area of the navigation pane, connect to a server or host.

2. In the Backup Extensions area of the navigation pane, click a backup extension to view its storage

components and restore points.

3. Select one or more volumes or storage components to display restore points. Right-click the name

of a server and select Select All Children to select all components listed for a server.

4. Click the restore point to display a report.

5. In the bottom of the display, click the Restore Point Report tab.

Understanding Backup Types

A Replay Manager backup can be either a Windows VSS backup or a VMware backup.

Windows Backup Types

For Windows applications (Exchange, SQL Server, and Hyper-V), Replay Manager creates backups using

the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS).

There are two types of VSS backups:

• Copy backup backs up all files, including all application and log files on the selected volume(s). All

information on which files were changed or deleted is preserved; therefore, copy backups do not

affect the sequence of incremental and differential backups that might happen independent of the

copy backup.

• Full backup may truncate transactional log files after the backup finishes depending on the

application. Once all transactions from a log are applied to the database, the database sets a

checkpoint (or a marker) to the last committed transaction. Once the checkpoint is set, the logs that

have been applied may be truncated or deleted.

By default, Replay Manager Service for Windows takes VSS copy backups. SQL Server transaction logs are

not truncated with either a copy or full backup.

NOTE: If backing up Exchange data and using a third‐party backup application such as Windows

Backup, NetBackup, or BackupExec, it is important to understand which application will handle the

transaction logs: Replay Manager, or the third party backup application. If you currently use any type

of incremental schedule within your backup application, remember that the backup application

relies upon the transaction logs to create a successful backup. If Replay Manager is truncating logs

in a full backup, then the transaction logs would not be available to the third party application.