How to recover a specific version

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

Most of the time when you are recovering data, you want to recover a specific version. You can recover data for an entire volume or share or for any subset of a protected volume or share, including individual folders and files. After you find the version of the data that you want to recover, you can select and recover the data.

To recover a specific version

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

  2. On the Browse tab, in the Servers with recoverable data pane, browse to the data that you want to recover. If you cannot find the data, you can search for recoverable data.

    Note

    The Last Modified time displayed for a shadow copy in the Recovery task area may be more recent than the Date Modified time displayed for the data source in Windows Explorer or other environments. This happens because DPM updates the time stamp on replicas and shadow copies for a permissions change while other applications, such as Windows Explorer, do not update time stamps when only permissions change.

  3. In the results pane, select the items that you want to recover.

  4. In the Actions pane, click Recover. This opens the Recover Data dialog box.

  5. If you want to change the recovery destination:

    On Data to Recover tab, click Change Destination.

    In the Specify Alternate Recovery Destination dialog box, browse to a recovery destination, select it, and then click OK.

  6. On the Data to Recover tab, click Recover Now.

    This opens the Recovery Status dialog box and starts the recovery job. Click Help if you need assistance.

Note

Recovery jobs take priority over synchronization jobs. If a synchronization job is running or is scheduled to start while a recovery job is running, the synchronization job will be canceled.

For information about modifying the default recovery options, see How to set the recovery options.