You can restore the volumes on a protected machine from the recovery points stored in the Rapid Recovery Core. In AppAssure 5.4 and later, this process uses the Restore Machine Wizard.
NOTE: Rapid Recovery supports the protection and recovery of machines configured with EISA partitions. Support is also extended to Window 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 machines that use Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE). |
You can begin a restore from any location on the Rapid Recovery Core Console by clicking the Restore icon in the Rapid Recovery button bar. When you start a restore in this manner, you must specify which of the machines protected on the Core you want to restore, and then drill down to the volume you want to restore.
Or you can go to Recovery Points page for a specific machine, click the drop-down menu for a specific recovery point, and then select Restore. If you begin a restore in this manner, then follow this procedure starting with Step 5.
If you want to restore from a recovery point to a system volume, or restore from a recovery point using a boot CD, you must perform a Bare Metal Restore (BMR). For information about BMR, see Bare metal restore, and for prerequisite information for Windows or Linux operating systems, see Prerequisites for performing a bare metal restore for a Windows machine and Prerequisites for performing a bare metal restore for a Linux machine, respectively. You can access BMR functions from the Core Console as described in the roadmap for each operating system. You can also perform a BMR from the Restore Machines Wizard. This procedure will direct you at the appropriate point in the wizard to the procedure Performing a bare metal restore using the Restore Machine Wizard.
Complete the following procedure to restore volumes from a recovery point.
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To restore a volume on a protected machine from the Restore icon, navigate to the Core Console and click Restore from the Rapid Recovery button bar. |
The Restore Machine Wizard appears.
The Recovery Points page appears.
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To restore data from the selected recovery point to the same machine, and if the volumes you want to restore do not include the system volume, then select Recover to a protected machine (only non-system volumes), verify that the destination machine is selected, and then click Next. |
The Volume Mapping page appears. Proceed to Step 9.
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To restore data from the selected recovery point to a different protected machine (for example, replace the contents of Machine2 with data from Machine1), then select Recover to a protected machine (only non-system volumes), select the destination machine from the list, and then click Next. |
The Volume Mapping page appears. Proceed to Step 9.
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NOTE: Performing a BMR has specific requirements, based on the operating system of the agent machine you want to restore. To understand these prerequisites, see Prerequisites for performing a bare metal restore for a Windows machine and Prerequisites for performing a bare metal restore for a Linux machine, respectively.
NOTE: If the volumes you want to restore include the system volume, then select Recover to any target machine using a boot CD. This option prompts you to create a boot CD.
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If you want to restore from a recovery point to a system volume (for example, the C drive of the agent machine named Machine1), this process is also considered a BMR. Select Recover to any target machine using a boot CD. This option prompts you to create a boot CD. |
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On the Core server, in the Destination page of the Restore Machine Wizard, select I already have a boot CD running on the target machine, and then enter the information about the machine to which you want to connect described in the following table. |
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To complete your BMR from the Restore Machine Wizard, proceed to Step 9 of the topic Performing a bare metal restore for Windows machines.
NOTE: Rapid Recovery supports FAT32 and ReFS partitions. Only full restore and BMR are supported as a driver limitation exists with ReFS. Restore is implemented in user mode, VM export, and so on. If a Core is protecting at least one agent volume that contains the ReFS file system, it should be installed on Windows 8/2012, which provides native support of ReFS. Otherwise, functionality is limited and operations that involve such things as mounting a volume image do not work. The Rapid Recovery Core Console presents applicable error messages in these occurrences.
Bare metal restore of Storage Spaces disks configuration (a feature of Windows 8.1) is also not supported in this release. For details, see the Rapid Recovery Installation and Upgrade Guide. |
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Using the Live Recovery instant recovery technology in Rapid Recovery, you can instantly recover or restore data to your physical machines or to virtual machines from stored recovery points of Windows machines, which includes Microsoft Windows Storage Spaces. Live Recovery is not available for Linux machines or VMs using agentless protection.
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Click Next. |
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Click Next. |
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On the Summary page, select the option IMPORTANT! I understand that this operation will overwrite selected volumes with the data from the selected recovery pointto acknowledge that you understand the consequences of a volume restore. |
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When you copy directories and files, the access permissions of the user who is performing the copy operation are used and applied to the pasted directories and files. If you want to restore directories and files to your users while preserving original file permissions (for example, when restoring a user’s folder on a file server), see Restoring a directory or file and preserving permissions using Windows Explorer.
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NOTE: The Paste with Permissions command is installed with Rapid Recovery Core and Agent software. It is not available in the Local Mount Utility. |
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NOTE: In this step, if the Paste with Permissions command is disabled on the right-click menu, then Windows Explorer is not aware of the files that you want to copy. Repeat Step 2 to enable the Paste with Permissions command on the right-click menu. |
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