How to Enable/Disable Rollup for an Agent (4039509)

How to Enable/Disable Rollup for an Agent

This article describes how to enable or disable rollup for any agent machine being protected by Rapid Recovery, ensuring rollup occurs based on that retention policy.

When protecting your data using Rapid Recovery, backup snapshots are taken frequently, and are saved to the repository specified by the Core. To conserve resources over time, this data can be rolled up to an incrementally less granular series of recovery points.

Rollup occurs as an internal nightly maintenance procedure, during which the defined retention policy is enforced by collapsing and eliminating dated recovery points. You can also force rollup by accessing the retention policy, as described below.  As data ages beyond the requirements defined in the retention policy, those recovery points are rolled up fewer, smaller recovery points. This process is ongoing, requiring tradeoffs that need to be balanced: time and system resource required to perform the rollups; storage space required in the repository, and granularity of your backups.

1. Navigate to the Rapid Recovery Console and then click on Settings.

2. Click on the "Change" link under Nightly Jobs.

3. Scroll down until you see the Rollup section.

4. To enable rollup for an agent place a check in the checkbox next to the agent name. To disable rollup for an agent simply uncheck the checkbox.

5. Click on OK to save settings.