Veritas™ System Recovery 23 Manager

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Product(s): System Recovery (23.0)

Recovery Point Set and Independent Recovery Point in backup job

The following table describes the advantages and disadvantages of scheduled recovery point or independent recovery points sets as part of your backup jobs.

Warning:

If you are choosing Recovery Point Set backup the full recovery point and all associated incremental recovery points that make up the recovery point set must be kept together in the same folder. If there are missing files, the recovery point becomes invalid and you cannot restore the data.

Table: Backup Types

Type

Description

Recovery point set

Consider the following when you create recovery point sets.

  • A recovery point set is the same as an Independent recovery point except that it also has incremental tracking enabled for the selected drive.

  • This type of backup creates a base recovery point. Additional recovery points are created but save only the hard disk sectors that have changed since the creation of the base recovery point or the previous incremental recovery point.

  • Incremental recovery points are created faster than the first (base) recovery point and use less storage space than an independent recovery point.

  • Recovery point sets are ideal when you combine them with a schedule.

Independent recovery point

Consider the following when you create independent recovery points.

  • An independent recovery point creates a complete, independent copy of the entire selected drive.

  • An independent recovery point is not associated with incremental recovery points or recovery point sets in any way. As such, independent recovery points stand on their own and are usually a less complicated method for protecting your computer than recovery point sets.

    You can create an independent recovery point of a drive even if that drive is tracked with a recovery point set.

  • This backup type typically requires more storage space on a hard disk than a recovery point set.