Best practices for managing recovery points
The following table describes the best practices you can take for managing recovery points.
Table: Best practices for managing recovery points
| Best practice | Description |
| Maintain duplicate recovery points for safety. | Store recovery points on the network or OpenStorage destination and create CDs, DVDs, or tapes of recovery points for off-site storage in a safe, secure place. |
| Verify that recovery points or recovery point sets are stable and usable. | Where possible, document and test your entire recovery process. Restore recovery points and single files on the original managed client computer where the recovery points were created. Such testing can uncover potential hardware or software problems. |
| | Enable the Verify recovery point after creation feature when you create a backup policy. |
| | See Creating an advanced backup policy . |
| Manage storage space by deleting old backup data. | Delete incremental recovery points to reduce the number of files you have to maintain. This strategy also uses hard disk space more efficiently. |
| Review information on the Veritas System Recovery 21 Management Solution portal page. | Periodically review the portal page and the contents and events in the Status tab of a selected backup policy. It ensures stability in the computer system. You should also review log files periodically. |
| Review the contents of recovery points. | Ensure that essential data is backed up by periodically reviewing the contents of recovery point files with Recovery Point Browser in Veritas System Recovery. |