Rapid Recovery 6.10 - User Guide

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 Rapid Recovery, 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 Rapid Recovery 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.

Rapid Recovery 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.

Complete the steps in the following procedure to view the full list of recovery points for a protected machine. For more information on viewing specific recovery points, see Viewing recovery points for a machine.

NOTE: If you are protecting data from a DAG or CCR server cluster, the associated recovery points do not appear at the cluster level. They are only visible at the node or machine level.

In the Rapid Recovery Core Console, navigate to the protected machine for which you want to view recovery points.

From the menu at the top of the page, click Recovery Points.

The Recovery Points page appears, showing a Recovery Points Summary pane and a Recovery Points pane.

You can view summary information about the recovery points for the machine as described in the following table.

Table 76: Recovery point summary information
Info	Description
Total recovery points	Lists the total number of recovery points saved to the repository for this machine.
Total protected data	Indicates the amount of storage space used in the repository for these recovery points.
Repository	Lists the name of the repository in which these recovery points are stored.
Repository status	Graphically displays the amount of space consumed by the recovery points. Shows percentage of the repository used, the amount of space, and the total space of the repository. Click on the graph to see the amount of space remaining.

You can view information about the recovery points for the machine as described in the following table.

Table 77: Recovery point information
Info	Description
Icon	Graphic depiction of either a recovery point or, if expanded, a volume within the recovery point. Recovery points show an arrow indicating that detail can be expanded (or, if expanded, an arrow showing that the menu can be contracted).
Encrypted	Indicates if the recovery point is encrypted.
Status	Indicates current status of the recovery point.
Contents and More Information	Lists the volumes included in the recovery point. For Exchange servers, click to display information about the server. Hover over the More Information icon to see the space usage and the file system in the recovery point or volume displayed.
Type	Defines a recovery point as either a base image or an incremental (differential) snapshot.
Creation Date	Displays the date when the recovery point was created.
Size	Displays the amount of space that the recovery point consumes in the repository.
	The [More] drop-down menu lets you perform certain functions for the selected recovery point.