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142 | Protecting Workstations and Servers
2. Click the Actions drop-down menu for that machine, click Force Snapshot, and
then select one of the options described in the following table.
3. When notification appears in the Transfer Status dialog box that the snapshot has
been queued, click OK.
A progress bar displays next to the machine in the Machines tab to show the progress
of the snapshot.
Restoring Data
Using the Live Recovery instant recovery technology in AppAssure 5, you can
instantly recover or restore data to your physical machines or to virtual machines
from stored recovery points of Windows machines, which includes Microsoft
Windows Storage Spaces. The topics in this section describe how you can export
protected data from a Windows machine to a virtual machine or roll back a Windows
or Linux machine to a previous recovery point.
If you have replication set up between two cores (source and target), you can only
export data from the target core after the initial replication is complete. For details,
see “Replicating Agent Data on a Machine” on page 118.
When recovering data on Windows machines, if the volume that you are restoring
has Windows data deduplication enabled, you will need to make sure that
deduplication is also enabled on the Core server.
About Exporting Protected Data from Windows Machines to Virtual Machines
AppAssure 5 supports both a one-time export or continuous export (to support
virtual standby) of Windows backup information to a virtual machine. Exporting your
data to a virtual standby machine provides you with a high availability copy of the
data. If a protected machine goes down, you can boot up the virtual machine to then
perform recovery.
Option Description
Force Snapshot Takes an incremental snapshot of data updated since the last snapshot
was taken.
Force Base Image Takes a complete snapshot of all data on the volumes of the machine.
Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 operating systems that are booted from FAT32
EFI partitions are not available for protection or recovery, nor are Resilient File System (ReFS)
volumes. For details, see the AppAssure 5 Deployment Guide.