Users Guide

Backing Up a Boot Volume (LUN 0)
In some instances, backing up a boot volume may fail because the Virtual Shadow Copy Service (VSS) cannot suspend all IO on the
volume. Therefore, do not use Replay Manager to back up boot volumes. To back up boot volumes, create a Storage Center Replay of the
boot volume.
Guidelines for Scheduling and Expiring Replays
Replays allow a site to restore data from a specic point-in-time. When planning schedules and expiration settings for Replays, take care to
balance the point-in-time restore requirements with the amount of resources consumed by unexpired Replays. That is, do not create Replay
schedules and expiration settings that allow unexpired Replays to consume a disproportionate amount of
Storage Center resources.
Extension-Specic Best Practices
Before using Replay Manager to create backup sets, schedule backups, and restore data, see the best practice guidelines. These guidelines
are specic to each available Replay Manager backup extension.
Related link
Replay Manager Best Practices
Summary of Backup Set Actions
This table lists actions available for creating and managing backup sets.
Backup Set Actions
Action
Description
Components
Refresh Components Refreshes the component pane display.
Scheduling
Suspend Schedule Suspends the schedule for the selected backup set.
Resume Schedule Resumes a backup set schedule that is suspended.
Modify Schedule Modies an existing backup set schedule.
Delete Schedule Deletes a backup set schedule.
Backup Set
Create Backup Set Opens the Create Backup Set dialog with the selected components added.
Run Now Immediately submits a job for the selected backup set.
Modify Settings Modies settings and components for an existing backup set.
Delete Backup Set Deletes the selected backup set.
Prepare for Script Creates a sample set of PowerShell cmdlets for submitting the selected backup set for execution.
Copy and paste the cmdlets into a script.
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