How to Perform a Rollback with Live Recovery of a Data Volume (4035425)

This article serves as a how-to guide on performing a restore of a data volume using Rapid Recovery.

In order to perform a rollback of a data volume, the following components are required:

• Valid recovery points and a functioning Rapid Recovery Core.
  • A volume on a machine to restore to:
  • This can be to the machine that originally had the data volume or to another machine that has a valid NTFS volume with enough space.
  • The intended target volume must be of the exact same size or larger than the original volume.
  • Live recovery to a volume smaller than the original is not supported.
  • If you are going to another machine, that machine must also be a protected agent by the AppAssure Core.
• Rapid Recovery Agent must be installed on the system where the volume will be restored. If the system is a new deployment or wasn't previously protected by the Core, it must be added to protection. Systems that were protected Agentless will also require the installation of the Agent software to perform the volume live restoration; the system will also need to be added to the Core via the Agent (VMs can be protected using the Agent and agentless on the same Core because each process uses a different identification method). The Agent can be removed once the recovery process completes.
• Please note that system drives (SRP and C:\) cannot be restored through Live Rollback.

The following steps detail how to perform a restore/live recovery of a data volume.

Initiating Restore on the Rapid Recovery core Console

1. Launch the Core Console.
2. From the list on the left, select the machine data is restoring from, and click the Recovery Points tab.
3. Locate the desired recovery point to restore from; on the rightmost column, click … and select Restore.

4. In the Restore Machine Wizard, from the drop-down list, choose the Agent where the volume will be restored.

5. In the Volume Mapping pane, map the correct data volume in the recovery point to an available volume on the target Agent. If necessary, click on "Show advanced options" and uncheck any unnecessary option (Live recovery and Force Dismount). Then, click the [Next] button.
   • NOTE: Only one volume can have Live Recovery enabled per machine that is being restored. There is no way to enable Live Recovery of multiple volumes for the same Agent.

6. A warning message will be displayed if the checkbox acknowledging that information on the destination volume will be overwritten is not selected. Click the [Finish] button.

The data on the volume will be restored and should be available when the job completes.