Dell AppAssure Video Links and AppAssure Technical Overview v2 Test Notes

AppAssure Replay 4 Video Demos:

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Test Notes:

In Dell AppAssure 5, AES 256 encryption is built in.

AppAssure events are logged in the:
- Protected server C: Drive
- AppAssure core server C: Drive
- Windows Event Viewer Application Log
- Windows Event Viewer AppAssure Log

Replication can be seeded using copying, and consuming recovery point files and a removable disk.

Replay cores are AppAssure backup servers.

Live Replay runs Exchange on the protected server and uses a filter driver to find the block requests.

To create a Virtual Standby, you must select Hyper-V or VMware.

Mountability check for Exchange knits together the full backup and all incremental snapshots.

To deploy agents and protect a server, you can:
- Push the agent from a core server
- Deploy the agent from the installation CD
- Deploy the agent from a NAS file server

The AppAssure Virtual Disk Driver mounts the Exchange volumes at the core server.

Exchange recovery options all you to:
- Redirect restored items to a PST file
- Redirect restored items to their original location
- Redirect restored items to a recovery folder
- Chose a different mailbox for legal hold

In AppAssure 5, repetition reduction refers to a setting in the event notifications that allows for fewer notifications to be sent if an error is repeated.

Doc Retriever for SharePoint must be run on a server running SQL Services.

To restore an individual Exchange message, right-click a recovery point and open a specific database.

The SQL availability check:
- Requires an SQL Server Service to be run on the AppAssure core server
- Runs once per day near midnight and can be changed by the SQL administrator
- Brings databases online to be sure they can be attached for recovery

Backups take up 1-2 percent of the application servers CPU.

Dell AppAssure 5 users download software from a license portal and activate licenses online.

Bare metal restores require an AppAssure license during the Boot CD Builder process.

SQL recovery by mounting databases:
- Must be mounted on a server with a local instance of SQL installed
- Can be mounted with a command line tool from the protected server
- Does not require a full restore of the protected server

DocRetriever for SharePoint can restore data for:
- SharePoint Servers
- SQL Servers
- Web Servers
- Index Servers

The Recovery Point is a container that holds the blocks that have changed.

Retention Scheme with Rollup allows setting of parameters on a server by server basis.

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