How to set recovery options

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Published : April 8, 2005 | Updated : August 17, 2005

When you recover data, you can use default settings or you can modify recovery options to specify the recovery location and security settings for the recovered data. To minimize the time required for recovery operations, DPM uses on-the-wire compression for all recovery operations to decrease the size of data being transferred.

On the Recovery Options tab of the Recover Data dialog box, you can modify the following recovery options:

  • Existing file version recovery behavior

  • Restore security

  • Notification

Where is the dialog box?

  1. In DPM Administrator Console, click Recovery on the navigation bar.

  2. Browse or search for the data you want to recover and then, in the results pane, select the data.

  3. In the Actions pane, select a recovery action: Recover or Show all versions.

  4. In the Recover Data dialog box, click the Recovery Options tab.

Existing file version recovery behavior

You can choose from three options:

  • Create copy. This is the default setting. If the file or folder already exists on the destination server, a copy of the file or folder will be restored to the destination on the file server where it originated, and assigned a different name. The file naming convention is:

    “<time stamp> copy of <original file name>”

  • Skip. If you select this option and there is a data item (share, volume, folder, file) with the same name at the recovery destination as the shadow copy name, that item will not be recovered. For example, if you are recovering a folder, only the data items in the folder that are missing will be replaced.

  • Overwrite. If you select this option, files at the destination are overwritten by the recovered files. However, files that are open during the recovery process cannot be overwritten.

Restore security

You can choose from two options:

  • Use the security of the shadow copy version. This is the default setting. The data item (share, volume, folder, file) retains the permissions that it had when the version was last synchronized.

  • Use the security of the version currently on the target. With this option, the permissions on the destination data are applied to the recovered data. If the recovered data item does not exist at the destination, DPM applies the security settings of the parent to that item.

Notification

You can choose to send a notification by e-mail about the status of the recovery job. The default is to not send a notification.

To send a notification

  1. Check Send a notification when this recovery completes.

  2. In the Recipients box, type the e-mail address of each person to whom the notifications will be sent. Use semicolons to separate the e-mail addresses.

Note

If you enable this option and you have also subscribed to system-wide notifications, you may receive duplicate notifications by e-mail when this recovery job is completed.