Verifying the integrity of a recovery point
If you selected the Verify recovery point after creation option on the Options panel of the Define Backup wizard, the following occurs:
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Veritas System Recovery verifies that all of the files that make up the recovery point are available for you to open.
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Internal data structures in the recovery point are matched with the data that is available.
Also, the recovery point can be uncompressed to create the expected amount of data (if you selected a compression level at the time of creation).
Note: The time that is required to create a recovery point is doubled when you use theVerify recovey point after creationoption.
If you prefer, you can have recovery points automatically verified for integrity at the time they are created.
Related information
Table: Verifying recovery point options
| Option | Description |
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| Divide into smaller files to simplify archiving | Splits the recovery point into smaller files and specifies the maximum size (in MB) for each file. |
| This option is selected by default when you specify a Microsoft OneDrive location as your primary destination. A recovery point that is larger than 10 GB is automatically split into smaller files of less than 10 GB. You can split the size of the recovery point into smaller recovery points. | |
| Disable SmartSector™ Copying | Copies that are used and unused hard-disk sectors. This option increases process time and usually results in a larger recovery point. |
| SmartSector technology speeds up the copying process by copying only the hard-disk sectors that contain data. However, in some cases, you might want to copy all sectors in their original layout, whether or not they contain data. | |
| Ignore bad sectors during copy | Runs a backup even if there are bad sectors on the hard disk. Although most drives do not have bad sectors, the potential for problems increases during the lifetime of the hard disk. |
| Perform full VSS backup | Lets you perform a full backup on the VSS storage and send a request for VSS to review its own transaction log. This option is used for Microsoft Exchange Server only. |
| Exchange VSS determines what transactions are already committed to the database and then truncates those transactions. Among other things, truncated transaction logs help keep the file size manageable and limits the amount of hard drive space that the file uses. | |
| If you do not select this option, backups still occur on the VSS storage. However, VSS does not automatically truncate the transaction logs following a backup. | |
| Note: This option does not appear if you create a recovery point using theBack Up My Computerwizard feature in Veritas System Recovery Disk. |
To verify the integrity of a recovery point
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On the Toolspage, clickRun Recovery Point Browser.
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Select a recovery point, and then click OK.
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In the tree panel of the Recovery Point Browser, select the recovery point.
For example: C_Drive001.v2i.
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On the File menu, click Verify Recovery Point.
If the Verify Recovery Pointoption is unavailable, you must first dismount the recovery point. Right-click the recovery point and clickDismount Recovery Point.
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When the validation is complete, click OK.