Retention policies enforce the periods for which backups are stored on short-term (fast and expensive) media. Sometimes certain business and technical requirements mandate extended retention of these backups, but use of fast storage is cost prohibitive. Therefore, this requirement creates a need for long-term (slow and cheap) storage.
Businesses often use long-term storage for archiving both compliance and non-compliance data. The archive feature in Rapid Recovery is used to support the extended retention for compliance and noncompliance data; and it is also used to seed replication data to a remote replication core.
Use this procedure to create a one-time archive.
Prerequisites
If you plan to creating an archive to a cloud location, you must first add your cloud account to the Rapid Recovery Core Console.
About this task
A one-time archive is an archive created on-demand for a specified machine.
Steps
- On the button bar of the Rapid Recovery Core Console, click Archive.
- On the Archive Type page of the wizard, select One-time archive and click Next.
- On the Location page, select an option from the Location type drop-down list and then enter the required information and click Next.
- On the Machines page of the wizard, select the protected machine or machines you want to archive and click Next.
- On the Options page for a one-time archive, enter the information described in the following table:
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Maximum Size |
Large archives of data can be divided into multiple segments. Select the maximum amount of space you want to reserve for creating the archive by doing one of the following: • Select Entire Target to reserve all available space in the path provided on the destination provided in Step 4. (For example, if the • Select the blank text box, use the up and down arrows to enter an amount, and then select a unit of measurement from the dropdown list to customize the maximum space you want to reserve. |
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Recycle action |
Select one of the following recycle action options: • Do not reuse. Does not overwrite or clear any existing archived data from the location. If the location is not empty, Rapid Recovery lets you select a different location. • Replace this Core. Overwrites any pre-existing archived data pertaining to this core but leaves the data for other cores intact. • Erase completely. Clears all archived data from the directory before writing the new archive. • Incremental. Lets you add recovery points to an existing archive. It compares recovery points to avoid duplicating data that already |
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Comment |
Enter any additional information that is necessary to capture for the archive. The comment will be displayed if you import the archive later. |
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Build recovery points chains (fix orphans) |
Select this option to archive the entire recovery point chain. This option is selected by default. |
6. Click Finish.