Rapid Recovery 6.10 - User Guide

Cloud account connection settings let you determine how much time should pass between Rapid Recovery attempts to connect to your cloud account before the operation times out. Complete the steps in the following procedure to configure the connection settings for your cloud account.

Navigate to the Rapid Recovery Core Console.
On the icon bar, click Settings.
The Settings page appears.
In the left menu, click Cloud Accounts.
In the Cloud Accounts table, click the drop-down menu next to the cloud account you want to configure, and then complete one of the following actions:
- To return any custom cloud configuration settings to the following default settings, click Reset.
  - Request timeout 01:30 (minutes and seconds)
  - Write buffer size 8388608 (bytes)
  - Read buffer size 8388608 (bytes)
- To change the cloud account connection settings, click Edit, and in the Cloud Configuration dialog box, complete any of the following actions:
  - For Request timeout, use the up and down arrows to determine the amount of time in minutes and seconds that Rapid Recovery should spend on a single attempt to connect to the cloud account when there is a delay. Connection attempts will cease after the entered amount of time.
  - 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.

Managing report settings

You can generate reports for the Rapid Recovery Core or for protected machines. For information on the reports you can generate, see Reporting.

Complete the steps in this procedure to manage report settings for Core reports.

Navigate to the Rapid Recovery Core Console.

On the icon bar, click [Settings]

(Settings), and then do one of the following:

From the list of Core settings on the left side of the Settings page, click Reports.
Scroll down on the right side of the Settings page until you can see the Reports heading.

The Reports Core settings appear. Report settings are described in the following table.

Option	Description
Restore Default	This option restores all report settings to the default settings. Defaults are listed below for each setting.
Font	This option controls the default font used for reports. The default typeface is Trebuchet MS. You can change this font to any typeface available to your system.
Paper size	This option controls the default paper size for printing reports. The default is letter. You can choose from the following paper sizes: A3 A4 B4 Executive Ledger Legal Letter Tabloid
Page orientation	This option controls the page orientation for exported reports. The default orientation is Landscape. You can choose from the following layout options: Landscape Portrait

To change any of the settings for Reports, click in the appropriate setting field.

The setting field appears as a configurable drop-down menu.
Click the drop-down menu, and select one of the values available.

For example, in the Font field, click Times New Roman.
For each setting, when satisfied with your changes, click to save the change and exit edit mode, or click to exit edit mode without saving.

The option you selected now appears as the new setting for the selected Reports parameter.

Managing Core SQL attachability settings

SQL attachability checks occur as part of the Rapid Recovery nightly jobs. To ease licensing costs, Rapid Recovery gives you two options for performing attachability checks: using a licensed instance of SQL Server installed on the Rapid Recovery Core machine or using the instance of SQL Server already installed on your protected machine. This second option is now the default setting. However, if your protected machine is already exerted during the time when the nightly jobs occur, consider performing the checks with an instance of SQL Server on the Core.

The ability to perform attachability checks using the SQL Server instance on a protected machine is a function of the Rapid Recovery Agentsoftware. This feature does not work if the SQL Server is protected agentlessly. Therefore, if using agentless protection on the SQL machine, configure this Core setting to Use SQL Server on the Core, as shown in step 3 of this procedure.

In summary, the process of managing Core SQL attachability settings involves the following tasks:

Mount the latest recovery point for protection groups containing databases.
Connect to the database from SQL Server.
Open the database.
Close the database.
Dismount the recovery point.
To enable this nightly check, specify a SQL Server instance to use to perform attachability checks for SQL Server databases on protected machines.

NOTE: This option does not appear if you are not protecting a SQL Server in your Core.

To configure the Core to perform SQL attachability checks as part of the nightly jobs, complete the following steps.

NOTE: If you select the default option to use the instance of SQL Server installed on the protected machine, that SQL Server instance will manage SQL attachability for all protected SQL machines. If you do not want this setting to apply to all protected SQL machines, select Use SQL Server on the Core. To perform attachability checks on the Core, you must install or use a licensed version of SQL Server on the Core machine.

Navigate to the Rapid Recovery Core Console.
On the icon bar, click (Settings), and then do one of the following:
- From the list of Core settings on the left side of the Settings page, click Attachability.
- Scroll down on the right side of the Settings page until you can see the Attachability heading.
To use the SQL Server instance installed on the protected SQL Server machine, select Use SQL Server on the protected machine. This is the default option.

To use the SQL Server instance installed on the Rapid Recovery Core, select Use SQL Server on the Core, and then enter the authentication information as described in the following table.

Table 32: SQL Server credentials information
Text Box	Description
SQL Server	From the SQL Server drop-down menu, select the appropriate SQL Server instance from the Core server.
Credential Type	Select the appropriate authentication method for your credentials from the following options: Windows SQL
User Name	Specify a user name for accessing the SQL Server on the Core based on your selected credential type.
Password	Specify a password for accessing the SQL Server on the Core based on your selected credential type.

Click Test Connection.

NOTE: If you entered the credentials incorrectly, a message displays to alert you that the credentials failed. Correct the credential information and test the connection again.
After you are satisfied with your changes, click Apply.