Users guide

231 Intel® RAID Software User Guide
Recovers lost data from disk in minutes, minimizing the downtime experienced by users
and eliminating the lengthy process of restoring data from tape.
Allows isolation of a server’s boot volume to a separate virtual drive; by enabling the
Auto Snapshot feature, users are guaranteed that bootable snapshots exist, in case
corruption of operating system occurs.
Note: MegaRAID Recovery Snapshots ar
e not a substitute for a tested backup
strategy. When Recovery Snapshot is enabled, changes to the selected volume
are tracked. When a roll back to a snapshot at a previous Point in Time (PiT)
is done, you are “undoing” changes to the volume that caused corruption or a
file deletion. The first snapshot does not create a full volume backup.
Recovery Snapshot is equivalent to Microsoft* System Restore with additional
features and capabilities.
Detailed Configuration steps are as follows:
1. Select the Logical
view. Select and highlight a virtual drive from the list of virtual
drives (If required, initialize, allocate and format the virtual drive).
2. Select Go T
o -> Virtual Drive -> Enable MegaRAID Recovery on the menu bar.
Figure 152. Enable MegaRAID Recovery
3. On the Enable MegaRAID Recovery Wizard scree
n, select the virtual drive to use
as the Snapshot Repository in the Snapshot Repository field. (You can leave the
suggested virtual drive as the Snapshot Repository.)
4. Enter the capacity to use in the Snapshot
Repository for changes to the base virtual
drive. The available capacity is the largest free block of capacity on the snapshot
repository virtual drive.