Viewing Backup Repository Details

The Repositories tab contains a Summary bar, which offers an overview of all backup repositories. The data displayed is as follows:

Issues: Total number of issues/alarms related to repositories
Repositories: Total number of repositories
Inaccessible: Total number of inaccessible repositories
Out of Space: Total number of repositories that are out of storage space
Detached: Total number of detached repositories
In Maintenance: Total number of repositories in maintenance
Good: Total number of usable repositories

To see information about specific repositories, backups, and recovery points, see the sections below.

Viewing Backup Repository Details

To view the Backup Repository details, follow the steps below:

Go to the main menu of NAKIVO Backup & Replication and click Settings.
Go to the Repositories tab.
Click a Backup Repository.
The following data is displayed:
- Free: The amount of free space available for the Backup Repository
- Used: The amount of space that the Backup Repository occupies on a disk. The amount of space that can be reclaimed is displayed in parentheses.
- Deduplication: The status of deduplication in the Backup Repository
- Compression: The compression level specified for the Backup Repository
- Encryption: The status of encryption in the Backup Repository
- Space savings: The estimated percentage and amount of space saved by compression and deduplication. For example, if 200 GB of data were backed up and the size of the backup was reduced to 50 GB, the ratio is calculated as 75%.
- Automatic self-healing: The state of the automatic self-healing option for the Backup Repository
- Scheduled self-healing: The state of the scheduled self-healing option for the Backup Repository
- Enforce explicit file system sync: The state of the enforce explicit file system sync option for the Backup Repository
- Scheduled data verification: The state of the scheduled data verification option for the Backup Repository
- Scheduled space reclaiming: The state of the scheduled space reclaiming option for the Backup Repository
- Scheduled detach: The state of the scheduled detach option for the Backup Repository
- Store backups in separate files: The behavior of the Backup Repository on backup data storage
- Type: The location of the Backup Repository, which can be one of the following:
  - Local folder on assigned Transporter
  - Remote CIFS Share
  - Remote NFS Share
  - Amazon EC2
  - Microsoft 365
  - Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  - Amazon S3
  - Generic S3-Compatible Storage
  - Wasabi
  - Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  - Deduplication Appliance
- Path to the folder: The path to the Backup Repository folder
- Assigned transporter: The Transporter that manages the Backup Repository (that is, the Transporter that reads data from and writes data to the Backup Repository)
- Backups: List of available backups in the Backup Repository

Viewing Backup Details

Below, you can view the details of the backups stored in the Backup Repository. The following information is displayed:

Name: Name of the backup
Job: The job type that created this backup
Size: The total size of the backup

Large numbers of backups are separated into pages to reduce clutter. To find a specific backup, you can scroll through the pages manually or simply look it up via the Search bar. Hover over the name of a backup and click the ellipsis Manage button on the right side to select one of the following options:

Recover: Select this option to proceed with recovery.
Verify: Select this option to verify the backup.
Repair: If the backup is corrupted, this option will attempt to restore it to an uncorrupted state.
Delete: Select this option to delete the backup from the repository.

Click on a backup name to view more information about the backup and see the recovery points available. The following information is displayed:

Name: Name of the backup item
Type: Type of job
Points: Number of recovery points available
Last point: Date of the latest recovery point
Size: The total size of the backup
Job name: Name of the job

Viewing Recovery Point Details

You can view the details of a recovery point in the lower part of the screen. To find a recovery point for a specific date, you can use the Search bar on the right. The following information is displayed:

Date: The date when the recovery point was created
Size: The size of the recovery point
Type: Type of backup used to create the recovery point
Schedule: If applicable, the schedule that was used to create the recovery point
Immutable until: If applicable, the date when the recovery point immutability expires
Protected until: The date until which the recovery point is retained, displayed only for recovery points belonging to jobs that use the schedule retention approach
Description: A description of the recovery point if one was provided

Note

The Size, Type, and Immutable until details are displayed only if the Store backups in separate files option (under Storage Savings & Encryption) is selected when creating or editing a Backup Repository.

For recovery points belonging to jobs using legacy retention settings, Use job retention is displayed under Protected until instead.

Date, Type, and Description can also be viewed when selecting recovery points in the Recovery Job Wizard.

Hover over the name of the recovery point and click the ellipsis Manage button on the right side to select one of the following options:

Recover: Select this option to proceed with recovery.
Edit: Select this option to edit the recovery point. Do the following:
- Optionally, you can add a Description to your recovery point.
- Choose the date until which the recovery point should be kept. The following options are available:
  - Use job retention: Choose this option to use the retention settings configured in the job for this recovery point.
  - Keep forever: Choose this option to keep this recovery point forever.
  - Protect until: Choose this option to keep this recovery point until a specific date. After selecting this option, choose the date in the calendar pop-up.
Delete: Select this option to delete the recovery point from the repository.

Note
To learn about the limitation on the chain of incremental recovery points, refer to the Knowledge Base article.