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 Progress
 Phase
 Failure Reason, if applicable
2. Click Open in New window to launch a new window to view the progress of the
protection. Or, click Close to close the window; the task will process in the
background.
To view alert information
 In the Alerts pane, you will see an alert as each protected machine is added. This
alert lists whether the operation was successful, any errors that occurred, the
level of the alert, the transactional date, and the related message.
If you want to remove all alerts from the page, you can click Dismiss All.
Managing Snapshots and Recovery Points
A recovery point is a collection of snapshots taken of individual disk volumes and
stored in the repository. Snapshots capture and store the state of a disk volume at a
given point in time while the applications that generate the data are still in use. In
AppAssure 5, you can force a snapshot, temporarily pause snapshots, and view lists
of current recovery points in the repository as well as delete them if needed.
Recovery points are used to restore protected machines or to mount to a local file
system.
The snapshots that are captured by AppAssure 5 are done so at the block level and
are application aware. This means that all open transactions and rolling transaction
logs are completed and caches are flushed to disk before creating the snapshot.
AppAssure 5 uses a low-level volume filter driver, which attaches to the mounted
volumes and then tracks all block-level changes for the next impending snapshot.
Microsoft Volume Shadow Services (VSS) is used to facilitate application crash
consistent snapshots.
Viewing Recovery Points
Complete the steps in the following procedure to view recovery points.