Create Recovery Point

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The Create Recovery Point activity is used to create a backup for a selected data source. This activity allows you to create a recovery point outside the Data Protection Manager scheduled interval as configured for a protection group.

The behavior is synchronous - the activity will run for as long it takes for Data Protection Manager to complete the action. This activity can also be used to force creation of an initial replica. For more information, see Protect Data Source.

For the procedure to configure this object, see: Configuring the Create Recovery Point Activity.

The following tables list the properties and published data for this activity. The activity publishes all the data from the required and optional properties into published data.

Create Recovery Point Property

Create Recovery Point Filters

Create Recovery Point Published Data

Configuring the Create Recovery Point Activity

To configure the Create Recovery Point activity

1. From the Activities window, drag a Create Recovery Point activity to the active runbook. Double-click the Create Recovery Point activity icon. The Properties dialog box opens.

2. On the Properties tab, click the ellipsis button (...), and select the Name of the Data Protection Manager computer that you want to connect to with this activity.

3. In the Properties section, enter a value for the DataSourceID property. Or, to automatically populate the value from the data published by any previous activity in the runbook, right-click the property box, point to Subscribe, and then click Published data. Click the published data element you want to use, and then click OK.

4. Click the Filters tab. In the Filters section, click Add. In the Name box, click the down arrow and select an item from the list that you want to use to define this runbook.

5. In the Relation box, click the down arrow and select a relationship descriptor for the filter.

6. In the Value box, click the ellipsis button (...) and select a value to be applied to this filter. If the ellipsis button does not appear for the filter you have selected, enter the value you want to use, and then click OK.

   If applicable, to automatically populate the value for a filter from the data published by any previous activity in the runbook, right-click the Value box, point to Subscribe, and then click Published data. Click the published data element you want to use, and then click OK.

7. Add additional filters as needed.

8. To make changes to a filter, click the filter, and then click Edit. Make the necessary changes, and then click OK. To remove a filter, click the filter and then click Remove.

9. For information about the settings on the General and Run Behavior tabs, see Common Configuration Instructions for all Activities.

10. Click Finish.

Other Activities

The Integration Pack for Data Protection Manager contains the following additional activities:

• Create Recovery Point

• Get Data Source

• Get DPM Server Capacity

• Protect Data Source

• Recover SharePoint

• Recover SQL

• Recover VM