When you attach an archive, it appears under Attached Archives on the Archives page of the Core Console, while the contents of the archive become accessible from the left navigation area. The contents appear under the name of the archive. Machines that were archived appear as recovery-points-only machines so that you can access the recovery points in the same way that you would for a currently protected machine: by mounting a recovery point, locating the item that you want to recover, and using Windows Explorer to copy and paste the item to your destination.
There are advantages to restoring from an attached archive rather than importing an archive to a repository.
- Restoring from an attached archive saves the time you may spend importing an entire archive to a repository.
- Also, when you import an archive, the archived recovery points are added to the repository.
Because these archived recovery points are likely the oldest items in the repository, they may be rolled up according to your retention policy during the next nightly job. (Although, this action does not delete them from the archive; you could re-import them the next day.) - Lastly, the Core remembers the attachment association with archives, even after you detach an archive, making it easier and faster to attach the archive again later.
You can remove the association by deleting the attachment.
To restore data from an attached archive, complete the following steps using the related links:
NOTE: The procedure for restoring from an attached archive assumes that you already have an archive of rolled-up recovery points. |
- Attach the archive.
- Mount the recovery point that contains the data that you want to recover.
- Restore data using any of the following methods:
- Restore data, such as file or folder, from the recovery point.
- Restore the entire recovery point.
- Export the recovery point to a virtual machine.
For more information, see the following related topics: