Specify Recovery Options

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05/17/2011

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

Use the Specify Recovery Options page of the Recovery Wizard to specify options to apply to recovery. This page contains the elements described in the following table. Available options will depend on the type of data you are recovering.

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File Servers and Desktop Computers	Why choose this option?
Existing version recovery behavior	Select Create copy, Skip, or Overwrite. Important If you are recovering data protected from a case-sensitive server onto a server that is not case sensitive, select the Create copy option. Otherwise, if they differ in case but have the same name, only some of your files will be recovered.
Restore security	This option appears only if you selected Recover to original location or Recover to an alternate location in the Select Recovery Type screen. Select Inherit security settings of target when overwriting or of parent folder when creating copy or Apply the security settings of the recovery point version.
Network bandwidth usage throttling	Click Modify to enable or disable throttling settings and specify a work schedule.
Notification	If you have subscribed to alerts and notifications in DPM, select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box to have DPM notify you. To enable this, you must configure a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server that you want DPM to use to send the notifications. For instructions, see Configuring the SMTP Server.
Recipients	If you select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box, type the e-mail address of the recipients you want to send the notification to. Separate the e-mail addresses with commas.
Exchange-Based Servers	Why choose this option?
Mount the databases after they are recovered	Select whether or not to mount the Exchange databases after DPM recovers them.
Bring the database to a clean shutdown after copying the files	This option brings the database files to a mountable condition by copying the logs. Select this option only if the destination is an Exchange-based server that has the same version of the Exchange application as at the time of protection.
Network bandwidth usage throttling	Click Modify to enable or disable throttling settings and specify a work schedule.
Notification	If you have subscribed to alerts and notifications in DPM, select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box to have DPM notify you. To enable this, you must configure a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server that you want DPM to use to send the notifications. For instructions, see Configuring the SMTP Server.
Recipients	If you select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box, type the e-mail address of the recipients you want to send the notification to. Separate the e-mail addresses with commas.
SQL Servers - Specify Database State	Why choose this option?
Recover database	Select this option to perform a full recovery and leave the database ready to use.
Recover and leave database in restoring state	Select this option to recover the database but leave it non-operational.
Network bandwidth usage throttling	Click Modify to enable or disable throttling settings and specify a work schedule.
Notification	If you have subscribed to alerts and notifications in DPM, select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box to have DPM notify you. To enable this, you must configure a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server that you want DPM to use to send the notifications. For instructions, see Configuring the SMTP Server.
Recipients	If you select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box, type the e-mail address of the recipients you want to send the notification to. Separate the e-mail addresses with commas.
SQL Servers - Database Restoring State Option	Why choose this option?
Copy SQL transaction logs between the selected and latest available recovery	Select this option if logs are available for the selected database for the most current data.
Windows SharePoint Services Servers	Why choose this option?
Network bandwidth usage throttling	Click Modify to enable or disable throttling settings and specify a work schedule.
Enable SAN-based recovery using hardware snapshots	Select this option to enable SAN-based recovery using hardware snapshots for quicker recovery. Before you can recover data on a SAN using hardware snapshots, you must have the following: A SAN where hardware snapshot functionality is enabled; a SAN with the capability to create a clone and split a clone to make it writable, and the protected computer and the DPM server connected to the same SAN.
Notification	If you have subscribed to alerts and notifications in DPM, select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box to have DPM notify you. To enable this, you must configure a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server that you want DPM to use to send the notifications. For instructions, see Configuring the SMTP Server.
Recipients	If you select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box, type the e-mail address of the recipients you want to send the notification to. Separate the e-mail addresses with commas.
Virtual Servers	Why choose this option?
Apply security settings of the destination computer	Select this option if you want the recovered data to have the same security settings as the destination server.
Apply the security settings of the recovery point version	Select this option if you want the recovered data to retain its existing security settings.
Enable SAN-based recovery using hardware snapshots	Select this option to enable SAN-based recovery using hardware snapshots for quicker recovery. Before you can recover data on a SAN using hardware snapshots, you must have the following: A SAN where hardware snapshot functionality is enabled, a SAN with the capability to create a clone and split a clone to make it writable, and the protected computer and the DPM server connected to the same SAN.
Notification	If you have subscribed to alerts and notifications in DPM, select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box to have DPM notify you. To enable this, you must configure a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server that you want DPM to use to send the notifications. For instructions, see Configuring the SMTP Server.
Recipients	If you select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box, type the e-mail address of the recipients you want to send the notification to. Separate the e-mail addresses with commas.
System State	Why choose this option?
Enable SAN-based recovery using hardware snapshots	Select this option to enable SAN-based recovery using hardware snapshots for quicker recovery. Before you can recover data on a SAN using hardware snapshots, you must have the following: A SAN where hardware snapshot functionality is enabled, a SAN with the capability to create a clone and split a clone to make it writable, and the protected computer and the DPM server connected to the same SAN.
Notification	If you have subscribed to alerts and notifications in DPM, select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box to have DPM notify you. To enable this, you must configure a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server that you want DPM to use to send the notifications. For instructions, see Configuring the SMTP Server.
Recipients	If you select the Send an e-mail when this recovery completes check box, type the e-mail address of the recipients you want to send the notification to. Separate the e-mail addresses with commas.
DPM Servers	For more information about recovering protected computers and DPM servers, in the DPM 2010 Operations Guide, see Disaster Recovery (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=179152).

To proceed with the recovery, click Next.

For step-by-step instructions for recovering a DPM server from a secondary DPM server in case of disaster, see Disaster Recovery (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=179152) in the DPM 2010 Operations Guide.

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