Archiving data manually

R‑Cloud archives your data automatically after you assign the policy with the enabled Archiving option to the selected entity. However, you can archive data manually at any time (for example, if you want to archive data for a specific restore point or if an archiving job fails).

Prerequisites

You must have the Administrator or Backup Operator role assigned.
The Archiving option must be specified in the policy that is assigned to the entity whose data you plan to archive.

Considerations

Retention time for archives is set by calculating the current time (the time of starting the manual archiving job) plus the archive retention period.
If the restore point that you select contains a tier with an incomplete backup chain (due to one or more backups, copies of backup data, or data archives missing or being stored on a deactivated target), you cannot use this tier for archiving data manually.

Depending on the entity whose data you want to archive, access one of the following panels:

Accessing the SaaS panel

To access the SaaS panel, in the navigation pane, click SaaS.
Accessing the Applications panel

To access the Applications panel, in the navigation pane, click Applications.
Accessing the Instances panel

To access the Instances panel, in the navigation pane, click Instances.
Accessing the Buckets panel

To access the Buckets panel, in the navigation pane, click Buckets.

Procedure

In the SaaS, Applications, Instances, or Buckets panel, click the entity whose data you want to archive.
In the Detail view that appears at the bottom of the screen, select the preferred restore point.

 Note The Detail view appears only if you click an entity. Selecting the check box before the name of the entity will not open the Detail view.
Click Run Archiving.
Select the archive tier that you want to run.

 Important You can select only among the archive tiers that do not already exist for the selected restore point and that correspond to the archiving options (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly) that are enabled in the policy assigned to the entity. For details on archiving options, see Creating data archives.
Click Run.