{"id":10879,"date":"2018-06-18T09:37:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T23:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=10879"},"modified":"2018-06-18T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T23:37:21","slug":"some-backup-and-data-recovery-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/some-backup-and-data-recovery-tricks","title":{"rendered":"Some Backup and Data Recovery Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When your server goes down, time is of the essence, and a few tricks can make all the difference. Use these techniques to shave hours or days off your data recovery time.<\/p>\n<h3>Bootable Backups<\/h3>\n<p>A bootable backup is a single USB HDD device containing both your backup media and boot media. When you make one of these, you&#8217;ve got an all-in-one data recovery device that you can just plug in and run in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>To learn how to make Bootable Backup Media with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/\">BackupAssist<\/a>, read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/support\/en\/backupassist\/backup\/system-protection.htm\">System Protection<\/a> guide.<\/p>\n<h3>Rapid VM Recovery<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/news\/what-is-instant-rapid-vm-recovery\/\">Rapid VM Recovery<\/a>, also known as Instant VM Recovery, is a trick that allows you to instantly spin up a lost or damaged VM off your backup media. It basically ensures zero downtime, because you can continue using that VM while you&#8217;re performing a Full VM Recovery in the background.<\/p>\n<h3>Granular Restore<\/h3>\n<p>When you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/news\/use-granular-restores\/\">granularly restore<\/a> something, you&#8217;re restoring just some select data from within a backup instead of the whole thing. This can include something like individual files, but in reality granular restore just means &#8220;anything smaller and within the backup&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a granular guest restore is when you&#8217;re just restoring data from within a few <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyper-V\">Hyper-V<\/a> guest backups. Meanwhile, an Exchange granular restore might mean restoring individual emails, attachments, calendar or contact data. An SQL granular restore usually means individual databases.<\/p>\n<p>In this light, it&#8217;s pretty easy to see why granular data recovery is so powerful &#8211; it allows you to reach into backups and just pluck out the data you need. This saves you a massive amount of time &#8211; instead you&#8217;d be restoring the whole backup somewhere and trying to copy over just a few things from that location.<\/p>\n<h3>Backup Search Tools<\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got a fairly comprehensive backup software product, you should have access to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/news\/restore-search-never-scour-through-backups-again\/\">restore search too<\/a>l. This tool allows you to scour your backups even if they&#8217;re not connected, so you don&#8217;t have to actually physically retrieve that backup to know what&#8217;s on it.<\/p>\n<p>You can also get backup software with wildcard search functionality, which means you don&#8217;t need to know the name of what you&#8217;re searching for. This is an incredible time saver if you don&#8217;t exactly remember the details of the item you&#8217;re after, but you do know at least something. E.g. The date range it was backed up, created or modified, the file size, file type, or parts of the name.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s a fairly advanced search function, you should also be able to search multiple backups at once, further lowering your data recovery time.<\/p>\n<h3>Cloud Backup<\/h3>\n<p>Having a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/support\/difference-cloud-backup-storage-sync\/\">cloud backup<\/a> of vital business data can be a real time saver because it has high accessibility. 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