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Managing snapshots and recovery points
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Recovering data
Managing recovery
The Rapid Recovery Core can instantly restore data or recover machines to physical or virtual machines from
the recovery points. The recovery points contain agent volume snapshots captured at the block level. These
snapshots are application-aware, meaning all open transactions and rolling transaction logs are completed and
caches are flushed to disk before creating the snapshot. Using application-aware snapshots in tandem with
Verified Recovery, enables the Core to perform several types of recoveries, including:
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Recovery of files and folders
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Recovery of data volumes, using Live Recovery
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Recovery of data volumes for Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server, using Live Recovery
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Bare metal restore, using Universal Recovery
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Bare metal restore to dissimilar hardware, using Universal Recovery
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Ad-hoc and continuous export to virtual machines
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Snapshots and recovery points
This section describes how to use and manage the snapshots and recovery points generated by Rapid Recovery.
It includes information about mounting, viewing, and forcing, as well as migrating and deleting recovery points.
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Managing snapshots and recovery points
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.
