Rapid Recovery 6.4 - User Guide

Removing recovery points

1. In the Rapid Recovery Core Console, under the Protected Machines menu, click the name or IP address of the machine for which you want to view and remove recovery points.
   The Summary view for the selected protected machine appears.
2. Next to the machine name or IP address, click the Recovery Points menu.
   The Recovery Points page for the selected machine appears.
3. Scroll down to the Recovery Points pane.
   Options appear under the pane title, including Refresh, Delete Range, and Delete All.
4. To delete all currently stored recovery points, under the Recovery Points pane title, click Delete All, and in the confirmation dialog box, click to confirm deletion.
5. To delete a set of recovery points in a specific data range, do the following:
   1. Under the Recovery Points pane title, click Delete Range.
      The Delete Recovery Points Within Range dialog box appears.
   2. In the Delete Recovery Points Within Range dialog box, in the From field, select the date and time from which you want to start deleting recovery points.
   3. In the To field, select the date and time defining the last recovery point you want to delete.
   4. Click Delete.
   5. In the confirmation dialog box, click to confirm deletion.

Deleting an orphaned recovery point chain

1. In the Rapid Recovery Core Console, navigate to the protected machine for which you want to delete the orphaned recovery point chain.
2. From the menu at the top of the page, click Recovery Points.
3. In the Recovery Points pane, expand the orphaned recovery point.

   This recovery point is labeled in the Type column as “Incremental, Orphaned.”

4. Next to Actions, click Delete.

   The Delete Recovery Points window appears.

5. In the Delete Recovery Points window, click Yes.

   Caution: Deleting this recovery point deletes the entire chain of recovery points, including any incremental recovery points that occur before or after it, until the next base image. This operation cannot be undone.

   The orphaned recovery point chain is deleted.

Migrating recovery points manually to a different repository

1. In the Rapid Recovery Core Console, pause protection for any protected machines that have recovery points you want to migrate. For more information, see Pausing and resuming protection.
2. Cancel all current operations for any protected machines that have recovery points you want to migrate, or wait for them all to complete.
3. Archive the recovery points for the machine or machines you paused. For more information, see Creating an archive.
4. After archiving and verifying the archive, remove the existing recovery points for the protected machine you want to migrate. For more information, see Removing recovery points.

   NOTE: Without removing existing recovery points, you cannot change repositories for a protected machine.

5. Create a new repository for the migrated recovery points, or ensure a new destination repository exists. For more information, see Creating a DVM repository.
   If you want to use an existing repository, continue to step 6.
6. Change the repository for each machine that you paused by completing the following steps:
   1. On the Core Console, click the protected machine in the navigation tree.
   2. On the Summary page of the protected machine, click Settings.
   3. On the Settings page, in the General pane, click the Repository drop-down list, and then select the name of the repository you created in step 4.

      If you want to use an existing repository, select the name of an existing repository.

      NOTE: When migrating recovery points to an existing repository, ensure that the existing repository has enough free space to contain the migrated recovery points.

   4. Click to save the change to settings.
7. Resume protection for the machine or machines that you paused. For more information, see Pausing and resuming protection.
8. Take a new base image for each of the protected machines you moved. For more information, see Forcing a snapshot and use the Force Base Image option.
9. Import the archived data for the machines you want to migrate. For more information, see Importing an archive.

Replication

This section describes how to configure and manage the replication of protected data from a Rapid Recovery source Core to a Rapid Recovery target Core for disaster recovery.

Topics include: