A disaster recovery protection policy should contain objects to be backed up, which include critical volumes and system-state recovery files.
Steps
From the left pane, select
Protection > Protection Policies.
Click
Add.
In the
Name field, type a name for the policy.
Ensure that the
File System option is selected, and then click
Next.
Click
Next.
In the
Assets pane, select the assets that the policy covers, and click
Next.
If a disaster recovery object was selected in the previous step, leave the
File Exclusions feature
Disabled, and then click
Next.
In the
Objectives pane, click
Next.
In the
Disaster recovery options pane, select the options that you want applied to the policy, and then click
Next.
Back up system state files only - Performs a backup of system state files only. By default, this checkbox is not selected and bare-metal recovery (BMR) data is backed up.
NOTE: If the policy is configured with this option, you can only perform a system-state recovery (SSR), and the backed-up data only contains SSR information. BMR with WinPE is not possible.
Ignore missing system state files - Missing Windows system state files are reported as errors, and the backup fails, reporting the files as missing. This option is selected by default.
Exclude noncritical dynamic disks - If any volume of a dynamic disk pack is critical, all volumes in the dynamic disk pack are considered critical. By default, this option is not selected and noncritical dynamic disks are part of the backup data. To avoid the creation of large system state files, select this option to exclude noncritical dynamic disks from the backup data.
Ignore third-party services when identifying critical volumes - When a Windows service or application is installed on an otherwise noncritical disk, that disk is considered critical. By default, this option is not selected and the backup includes the disks on which a Windows service or application is installed. To avoid the creation of large system state files, select this option.
The
Size column of the
Protection > Protection Jobs window includes the total size all disks, even disks that have been ignored. The correct size of these backup copies can be determined by subtracting the size of all excluded disks from the value displayed.
Click
Next.
Click
Finish.
Results
You can view the progress of the policy creation from the
Jobs > System Jobs window.
If you use the
Edit Policy wizard to add a disaster recovery asset to an existing protection policy, the
Disaster recovery pane is shown, with options that are the same as the options described in step 9.
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