Administrator Guide

Item Description
Schedule If scheduled, shows a brief description of the schedule.
Related tasks
Add a Note to a Restore Point on page 40
Edit a Note for a Restore Point on page 40
View a Restore Point Report
The Restore Point Report shows the run time messages for the backup job that created the restore point.
1. In the Server Connections area of the navigation pane, connect to a server or host.
2. In the Backup Extensions area of the navigation pane, click a backup extension to view its storage components and restore points.
3. Click the restore point to display a report.
4. In the bottom of the display, click the Restore Point Report tab.
Understanding Backup Types
A Replay Manager backup can be either a Windows VSS backup or a VMware backup.
Windows Backup Types
For Windows applications (Exchange, SQL Server, and Hyper-V), Replay Manager creates backups using the Microsoft Volume Shadow
Copy Services (VSS).
There are two types of VSS backups:
• Copy backup—Backs up all files, including all application and log files on the selected volumes. All information on which files were
changed or deleted is preserved; therefore, copy backups do not affect the sequence of incremental and differential backups that
might happen independent of the copy backup.
• Full backup—Might truncate transactional log files after the backup finishes depending on the application. Once all transactions from a
log are applied to the database, the database sets a checkpoint (or a marker) to the last committed transaction. Once the checkpoint
is set, the logs that have been applied may be truncated or deleted.
By default, Replay Manager Service for Windows takes VSS copy backups. SQL Server transaction logs are not truncated with either a
copy or full backup.
NOTE:
If backing up Exchange data and using a third‐party backup application such as Windows Backup, NetBackup, or
BackupExec, it is important to understand which application handles the transaction logs: Replay Manager, or the third
party backup application. If you currently use any type of incremental schedule within your backup application,
remember that the backup application relies upon the transaction logs to create a successful backup. If Replay Manager
is truncating logs in a full backup, then the transaction logs would not be available to the third party application.
Related References
Summary of Backup Set Options on page 29
VMware Backup Types
During backups of VMware datastores and virtual machines, Replay Manager Service for VMware takes a temporary VMware snapshot.
Backup set options specific to VMware include the following:
• If the Include virtual machine memory in vSphere snapshot option is selected in the backup set definition, the backup includes
the internal state of the virtual machine.
• If the Create Storage center Replay of Physical RDMs option in selected in the backup set definition, the backup includes the
physical mode raw device mappings (pRDMs).
NOTE:
Because vSphere cannot create a VMware snapshot of physical RDMs, the physical RDM Replays are unlikely to
be consistent with the Replay containing the .vmdk file for the same virtual machine.
26 Backing Up and Restoring Data