How to Create a Recovery Point on Demand

You might want to manually create a recovery point instead of creating a recovery point at the regularly scheduled time, in order to capture the metadata from an archiving file system at a specific point in time.

For information about how long it might take to create a recovery point file when taken on demand, see Planning Recovery Points.

To create a recovery point on demand:

  1. From the Manage Hosts menu or the Managed Hosts page, choose the server on which the archiving file system is located.
  2. In the navigation tree, select Recovery Points under File Browsing and Recovery.
  3. Select the file system from the drop-down menu and click Create Recovery Point Now.