Manage Recovery Points

Topic

This article describes the Manage Recovery Points page of the Datto appliance GUI.

Environment

  • Datto SIRIS
  • Datto ALTO
  • Datto NAS

Description

The Manage Recovery Points page allows you to view critical information about the health of the backup snapshots for a protected system or share, and provides you with the ability to manage those snapshots.

Accessing the Manage Recovery Points Page

For enhanced security, certain features, such as the Delete all Cloud button, cannot be accessed locally, and are only available when accessing the Device Web UI from the Partner Portal.

  1. Log in to your Datto device's UI, either through the Partner portal or locally.

  2. To access the Manage Recovery Points page for an agent pairing, select the Protect tab. To access the page for a share, select File Share.

  3. Click the Manage Recovery Points link for the system or share that you would like to view.

    Your Datto appliance will display the Recovery Points page for the selected system.

The Recovery Points page

The following information is presented on the Recovery Points page for the selected agent or share.

  1. Storage Overview: This table displays the local and cloud storage information for the protected system. The information shown is:

    • Latest Local Point: Displays the date and time of the most recent snapshot available for the selected system on your Datto appliance.
    • Local Storage Used: Reports the total amount of local storage space used by the protected system's backups on the Datto appliance.
    • Average Daily Rate of Change: Tracks the average amount of data that is added or modified daily on the protected system. A minimum of 10 days worth of backups for the protected system must be present on your Datto appliance for this field to display a value.
    • Latest Cloud Point: Displays the date and time of the most recent snapshot available in the cloud for the selected system.
    • Cloud Storage Used: Reports the total amount of cloud storage space used by the protected system's backups.
    • Average Daily Storage Growth: Tracks the average daily growth of the local storage space used by the selected system's backups. A minimum of 10 days worth of backups for the protected system must be present on your Datto appliance for this field to display a value.
  2. Page Filters: These toggles allow you to apply filters to show only local snapshots, only cloud snapshots, or just snapshots for which a screenshot exists.

  3. Delete All Local and Delete All Cloud: Clicking either of these buttons will immediately delete all local backups or all cloud backups that are not required to maintain an association with the offsite backup chain for the selected system. See our article about Deleting Local and Cloud Data to learn more.

  4. Recovery Points: This table allows you to view and manage the available snapshots for a protected system. The information shown is:

    • Date / Time: The date and time that the snapshot was taken. Clicking the checkbox next to one or more snapshots will display a summary of the local storage used by the point(s), and allow you to delete them via the Delete Local or Delete Cloud options. Learn more about the data deletion process in our Knowledge Base article on the subject.

      NOTE  You will not be able to select or mark any point for deletion that your Datto appliance has flagged for offsite replication or considers a Connecting Point - an essential snapshot that is used to maintain consistency between the local and offsite backup chains. To permanently remove all backup points for a selected system, you must first archive the backup chain.

    • Type: Indicates whether the snapshot taken was a Full backup (a full-disk snapshot of the production machine), Incremental backup (a snapshot of only that data which changed), or a Differential backup.

    • Local Verified: Provides an at-a-glance summary of the data integrity of the snapshot. See the Local Verified section of this article for more information. If the snapshot was deleted locally, but still exists in the cloud, the UI will indicate when the point was removed locally.

    • Exists in Cloud: Indicates if a local backup replicated to the Datto Cloud. A green circle means that a cloud snapshot exists for the backup point; an empty ring means that one does not. Clicking any empty circle in this column will allow you to replicate the selected snapshot to the cloud if a newer connecting point does not already exist.

    • Screenshot Verification: Provides an at-a-glance summary of the bootability of the snapshot. See the Screenshot Verification section of this article for more information.

      • This column will not appear for NAS shares

    • Backup Size: Displays a representation of the disk space used locally by the snapshot. This value may change over time depending on the amount of unique data included in the backup. This value does not necessarily represent the amount of data that was written to the disk in that snapshot, but barring a full backup taking place, this value represents the amount of space you will reclaim if you delete the recovery point.

  5. Additional Actions: Invokes a menu that will allow you to re-run screenshot verification on any eligible backup point. You can also review the log output of any script validation tasks run during the verification process. These options are not available for NAS shares.