• State Suggested Answer
  • Replies 10 replies
  • Answers 1 answer
  • Subscribers 28 subscribers
  • Views 9633 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related

Copy only latest recovery point to hard drive?

jasonfreeman
over 4 years ago

We are currently using Rapid Recovery archiving to copy some device backups to a local hard drive.

The problem is that we are running out of space on the local hard drive.  We are running out of space because the archiving function of Rapid Recovery copies all the recovery points for these backups.  Instead, we would prefer for it to copy only the latest recovery point for these backups.

Is there any way to do this?  Is there anything outside of archiving that will copy only the latest recovery point?

Parents
  • 0 over 4 years ago

    In the archive wizard there is an option to "Include only recovery points in the date range"

    If you set the date range to only the most recent date, it will only archive the most recent recovery points. However, please note that archiving a single incremental recovery point is not useful for restore. You can attach the archive to a core, but the incremental recovery point will show as orphaned unless it has all of the incremental recovery points and the base image created prior to it. So generally archiving only a specific incremental recovery point is a bad idea.

    Also, please note that this option does not function in the same way if you use the recycle action "incremental". This is because the entire point of an incremental archive is to review the data in the location you have chosen to save the archive and then append only the new recovery points. Hence if there is nothing in that location, a complete copy of the recovery points will be written out since there is nothing there and everything in the repository is seen as new and needs to be added to the location.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Tim Seymour

    Yeah, I definitely want the latest recoverable recovery point (i.e., the latest incremental, plus everything back to the latest base).  I just don't want the incrementals and bases from since forever.

    Is there any option to do that?  Or, alternatively, is there any correlation between dates and when a base is created?  For example, if a base were created once per month, I would indicate to copy the recovery points from the last 30 days or so.

    And yeah, for the recycle action, we do "Erase completely."

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jasonfreeman

    As I side note: I just looked under "Options," and I see nothing but "recycle action" as an option.  Is that expected behavior?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jasonfreeman

    I am not a fan of archives, I think the logic/ operation is a bit flawed. I only set them up in very specific instances.

    You may want to think about installing another Core and setting up replication. This would allow you to have a much finer control on what is kept via retention and probably be a bit less demanding on your current core/ storage

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jasonfreeman

    What version of RR are you running? It looks like you maybe running an older version that did not support this option

Reply Children