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 In this video, I'm going to take a couple
 of minutes to go through, backup

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 and restore for files and folders using
 the Recovery Services Vault and

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 the Azure Backup capabilities.

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 What we're going to do is we're going
 to take a look at File and Folder

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 Backup, and then I'm going to demonstrate
 File and Folder Backup, and

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 then restore once you see the backup,
 you'll realize it restore pretty

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 straightforward process.

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 All right, now what are our
 processes and restrictions?

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 First of all, there is the Mars agent,
 which if nothing else is just a

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 great name for an agent, that is the
 Microsoft Azure Recovery Services

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 agent. And what you need to do is you
 need to install that agent on any

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 server that you're going to use
 File and Folder Backup with.

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 Then after you've installed it, you're
 going to register that server with

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 the service credentials file.

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 The service credentials file is something
 you're going to download from

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 the portal. You can also of course
 get this from the command line, and

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 then you're going to
 go ahead and set up.

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 And what you'll do is you
 will set up a passphrase.

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 The passphrase is going to be used to
 encrypt your data before it's sent

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 up to Azure. So your data is going to
 be encrypted before it leaves your

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 machine that you are backing up.

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 It's of course going to be encrypted
 in transit going over HTTPS.

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 And it's going to be then further encrypted
 as encryption at rest in Azure

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 itself. So lots of
 encryption there.

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 You can schedule the backup.

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 Now the backup of individual files
 and folders, you can schedule up to

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 three times per day.

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 There are some restrictions.

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 This only works with Windows.

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 There's not a similar backup
 agent for Linux.

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 And you have to have at least Windows
 Server 2008 R2 or later and Windows

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 8 or later. You cannot do this with read
 only volumes or offline volumes.

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 And that's because it is using volume
 shadow copy to process this.

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 You cannot do this with
 network shares.

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 You cannot do it with anything that
 is protected with BitLocker.

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 And you also cannot perform
 this on removable disks.

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 So pretty really vanilla
 backup capability.

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 It is somewhat restricted.

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 I would say the BitLocker protection is
 something that could be problematic

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 depending on the sensitivity of your
 data and the security requirements

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 for the machine that you're using
 that you're going to backup.

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 All right. Now with that said, let's
 go ahead and take a look at file

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 and folder backup.

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 For this demonstration, I
 have a Windows machine.

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 This Windows machine happens to be
 running in Azure, but that's really

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 immaterial. I'm going to go through
 exactly the same process I would go

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 through if I was running this
 machine in my own data center.

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 I also am using the very cool Bastion
 capability so that may look a little

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 bit different. It's something that
 is relatively new and frankly I've

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 become relatively obsessed
 with using.

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 So we'll take a look at that.

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 But that's not really the critical part
 of this, but it will be in there.

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 All right. Now I currently have a browser
 window open and that browser

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 window is actually using
 this bastion capability.

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 So I'm actually connected
 to a virtual machine.

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 If I minimize these, you'll see it's
 kind of a standard virtual machine

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 here. And within the virtual machine,
 I have my Azure portal.

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 So I've got a browser window
 inside my browser window.

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 So there we go. We've
 got some layers there.

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 And what I'm going to do is I'm
 going to go into my vault.

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 So I'm sitting on the server right
 now that I want to implement backup

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 with. And I'm going to
 go to backup items.

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 And then I'm going to go
 to Azure backup agent.

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 There we go. And I already have one
 in here from something I was doing

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 to make sure it works.

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 But I'm going to add another one.

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 All right. Now when I add a backup,
 it doesn't actually matter where I

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 go from. I'm going to
 choose on premises.

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 And this is going to
 be a backup item.

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 So I'm going to use
 an on premises.

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 And then I choose what on premises
 I want to back up.

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 Everything other than files and folders
 requires the Azure backup server,

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 which I don't have installed.

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 So we're just going to go
 with files and folder.

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 Then I'm going to prepare
 infrastructure.

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 And then it's going to ask me to install
 the recovery services agent.

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 So I'm going to go ahead
 and download that.

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 All right. So here we have where
 I want to install and cache data.

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 Now in reality that may
 in fact be important.

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 And so we'll go there.

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 I am not using any kind of proxy.

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 If I was, I could set that and then
 I'm going to choose for brevity for

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 the sake of brevity.

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 I am going to choose not
 to use Microsoft update.

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 And then I'm going to install again,
 not the most complex installation.

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 And once this is done, we'll take a look
 at actually setting up a backup.

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 All right. And what I'm going to do is
 I'm going to go ahead and hit proceed

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 to registration.

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 All right. And now really what it's
 doing is first thing is asking me

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 for vault credentials, which as
 it turns out, I don't have.

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 But fortunately for me,
 pretty easy to get.

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 I can come in here to have already downloaded
 the latest recovery services

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 agent. And so now I want to download
 the vault credentials.

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 I'm going to go ahead
 and save those.

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 Should be in my download and flip back
 over to the registration wizard.

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 Put in my downloads and there is the
 file that has my vault credentials.

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 I'd recommend once you've gone through
 this process, go ahead and delete

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 that. They are time limited, but it's
 still not a good idea to have any

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 kind of credential just
 sitting on your machine.

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 Now the next thing I'm going to
 do is set up my passphrase.

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 Let's see if my standard passphrase
 is long enough.

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 Well, it's not. So I'm going to generate
 a passphrase of 36 characters.

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 Now the passphrase would be needed
 on a new machine where I'm going to

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 try and restore the data.

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 All right. And since I just generated
 that and it's hidden, that could

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 be problematic. But what I'm going
 to do is save it to my desktop.

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 Obviously once you have saved that file
 and it's just a text file, you're

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 going to want to take that file off
 your machine and put it somewhere

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 where it is well protected.

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 Otherwise you won't be able
 to restore your data.

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 All right. And so now it is
 registering the server.

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 That'll take a moment.

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 And once that's done, we'll go ahead and
 pop into the actual backup software

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 and take a look at setting
 up a backup.

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 All right. So the server is registered and
 it's telling you that the passphrase

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 was saved to a file.

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 I think if I click that link,
 it should open the file.

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 There we go. There is my passphrase
 and the faults and the machine that

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 it was set up for.

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 And not a bad idea in terms of saving
 it recommends that you save a copy

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 of the passphrase to Key Vault.

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 You would have to
 do that manually.

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 What I'm going to do is go
 ahead and launch the agent.

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 And the agent should be
 installed here as well.

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 There's Microsoft Azure Backup
 if I wanted to go directly.

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 But I'm going to go ahead
 and launch it from here.

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 And it should come
 up fairly quickly.

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 And it came up underneath.

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 There we go. So here I've got
 the Microsoft Azure Backup.

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 Now I could register the server,
 but I'm already registered.

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 So that wouldn't make
 a whole lot of sense.

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 What I want to do is go ahead
 and schedule backup.

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 Now if you've ever worked with any backup
 software pretty much anywhere,

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 this is going to be maybe a little step
 different here there, but something

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 that you could walk through.

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 So I'm not going to take a lot of time
 because I don't want to waste your

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 time. The first thing I'm going to
 do is I'm going to select items to

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 backup. And I've got
 a folder over here.

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 I've got a share folder here with an
 important file that has, of course,

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 important information in it.

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 So I would not want to lose that.

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 Now that is a local file.

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 I should say it's not a share
 from somewhere else.

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 It's just a local folder
 with a local file.

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 I'm going to add items.

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 I'm going to go and just
 add that entire folder.

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 Backing that up.

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 Specifying my backup schedule.

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 I'm going to schedule
 backup at 6 a.m.

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 And I can schedule
 two other backups.

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 6 p.m. And 6.30 p.m.

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 because why not?

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 And I'm going to go
 ahead and go next.

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 And so then I'm setting
 the retention policy.

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 I've got weekly, monthly, well daily,
 180, weekly, 104, two years, monthly,

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 60 months. And then
 yearly, 10 years.

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 Now do keep in mind that you
 are paying for that storage.

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 So on the one hand, it might seem like
 a good idea just to go ahead and

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 store everything for
 a really long time.

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 Like, you know, 10
 years of daily's.

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 But you want to be judicious
 in your selections.

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 Now, the initial backup type, you can
 automatically backup over the network,

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 which is the default.

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 Or you can use an offline backup,
 which is actually pretty cool.

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 And that will let you use an Azure data
 box for your initial offline backup.

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 Notice that at this time
 is in limited preview.

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 But since I have a single file, I feel
 relatively comfortable pushing

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 that over the network.

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 And so files and folders
 and finish.

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 And there we go.

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 All right. And if I go to backup now,
 click backup now, schedule item,

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 files and folders, retain until confirmation,
 I'm going to go ahead and

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 backup the share right now.

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 And back it up. Let's take a snapshot
 of my volumes and it is backing

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 up that data. So I'll wait for that
 to finish and then we'll take a look

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 at what that has generated.

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 All right. My backup has
 completed successfully.

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 So I could close that and I see
 the status of this backup job.

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 And I can view the details and I can
 see that the job was completed.

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 It actually transferred 22 megabytes
 worth of data, which is a lot of

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 data from one file.

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 Clearly, of course, there's
 some overhead.

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 All right. But that's
 the backup process.

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 Now, as far as the restore process,
 recover data, I'm not going to go

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 through the whole thing because again,
 if you've backed up, you've probably

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 gone through recover.

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 And here's what I'm going to do.

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 So I'm going to recover data from this
 server, which means it's going

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 to have the same key or from another
 server, which case I'm going to have

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 to put the key in.

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 Recovery mode. I want to recover
 individual files and folders.

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 Select volume and date.

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 Here are the backups
 that were performed.

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 And mount that. And it's going to let
 me really just mount that and pull

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 whatever data I need to pull.

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 And that's going to take a little while,
 but I'm going to assume that

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 you've worked with mounted
 data before.

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 If not, it's really just pretty much
 navigating to the data you want and

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 copying it over.

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 And so that is actually implementing
 file and folder backup.

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 Remember, with file and folder backup,
 you need to do a few things.

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 Obviously, you need
 to have a vault.

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 You need to install the Mars agent,
 which remembers just a fun name.

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 And you need to register
 the server.

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 Once you've done that, you can then start
 performing your file and folder

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 backup, all of which is actually managed
 from the software, from the agent

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 that's installed on the server.