Recovery/Retrieve History

Showing Recovered Objects for DataArchiver Persistent Recovery Jobs

Recovery/Retrieve History Considerations

Overview

The Recovery/Retrieve History Filter dialog box allows you to view detailed, historical information about recovery or retrieve operations for the DataArchiver agents.

For information on Job Details displayed in the Job History, see Viewing Job Information.

Once chosen, your filter options are then displayed in the Recovery/Retrieve Job History window. From this window you can view more detailed information such as the:

Items that did/did not recover during the recovery or retrieve job.
Details of the recovery or retrieve job.
Events of the recovery or retrieve job.
Log files of the recovery or retrieve job.

If you want to change the number of days that DataArchiver recovery job history is kept, go to the Control Panel's Media Management Configuration (Data Aging) dialog box and change the settings for the Days to keep the archiver restore job histories field.

Items That Recovered

The list of files that were recovered or retrieved by a data recovery or retrieve operation include those files that were successfully written back to the client file system are appended with the word:

RESTORED (with the File Archiver Agent)
RESTORED NEW (with the Exchange Mailbox/Public Folder Archiver Agents and the Exchange Compliance Archiver Agent)

Occasionally, data may not have been recovered or retrieved due to errors. Such data is appended with the word Not Restored.

Under some circumstances, the system may not recover or retrieve certain files because they are older versions of the same files already present in the files system. Such files are appended with the word OLDER. However, this word differs if the following recovery options are selected for Exchange Mailbox/Public Folder Archiver Agents:

If the option Overwrite is selected then the message will have be appended with EXISTED, OVERWROTE.
If the option Skip is selected, then the message will be appended with EXISTED, SKIPPED.

Showing Recovered Objects for DataArchiver Persistent Recovery Jobs

The Show Recovered Objects List option may be unavailable from the Recovery History window for DataArchiver stub recovery jobs associated with a common open pipeline (i.e., persistent recovery jobs). This includes stub recoveries from disk media for File Archiver for Windows/Unix/NetWare, and stub recoveries from both tape and disk media for File Archiver for Windows/Unix/NetWare instances (Local File System, Celerra, FPolicy, Network File Share). In order to view the list of recovered objects for these DataArchiver persistent recovery jobs, select the View Job Details option then access the Job Details (Details) tab.

You can use the nDMRSendFileStatus registry key to reduce the frequency at which the stub recovery job statistics are sent to Job Manager for updating the Recovery Job History views and reports. This is useful for increasing the efficiency of system resources in cases where there are frequent stub recalls and there is no need to update the Job History immediately after each stub recall.

Pruning Recovery History Information

You can prune recovery history information based on the number of days established in the Days to keep the archiver restore job histories option from the Media Management Configuration (Data Aging) dialog box available in the Control Panel.

Recovery/Retrieve History Considerations

Keep in mind that stub recall job history cannot be viewed for File Archiver for Windows recall jobs initiated from the physical node of a cluster in cases where only the driver is loaded on that node. However, browse recovery jobs which are initiated from the virtual server can still be viewed in job history. To obtain statistics on stub recall jobs in this scenario, we recommend running the Stub Recall Summary Report.
When viewing the Recovery History of Stub Recalls (via the Stub Recall Jobs tab), it will be displayed as originating from the defaultArchiveSet and the first Partition even if a user-defined Archive Set or other partition were used during the recall. Partitions are applicable to Domino Mailbox Archiver.