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Generating and viewing reports
This chapter provides an overview of reporting available in Dell AppAssure. It consists of the following topics:
•Understanding Compliance reports
•Understanding Failure reports
•Understanding the Summary report
•Generating a report for a core or agent
•Understanding Central Management Console core reports
•Generating a report from the Central Management Console
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Using the reports toolbar
The toolbar available for all reports lets you print and save in two different ways. The following table describes 
the print and save options.
For information about generating a report, see Generating a report for a core or agent. For information about 
the generating a report for multiple cores in the Central Management Console, see Generating a report from the 
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Understanding Failure reports
Failure reports are subsets of the compliance reports and are available for AppAssure Cores and AppAssure 
Agents. Failure reports include only the failed jobs listed in Compliance Reports and compile them into a single 
report that can be printed and exported.
Details about the errors are presented in a column view with the following categories:
•Core
•Agent
•Ty p e
•Summary
•Error
•Start Time
•End Time
•Elapsed Time
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Agents summary
The Agents portion of the Summary Report includes data for all machines protected by the selected AppAssure 
Core.
Details about each protected machine is presented in a column view with the following categories:
•Name
•Pr ote ct ed  Vol um es
•Total protected space
•Current protected space
•Change rate per day (Average | Median)
•Jobs Statistic (Passed | Failed | Canceled)
Generating a report for a core or agent
Complete the steps in...

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Understanding Central Management Console 
core reports
AppAssure lets you generate and view compliance, error, and summary information for multiple AppAssure 
Cores. Details about the Cores are presented in column views with the same categories described in the sections 
Understanding Compliance reports, Understanding Failure reports, and Understanding the Summary report.
For information on how to generate a report for multiple cores, see Generating a...

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Restoring data
This chapter describes how to restore backed up data. It includes the following sections:
•Restoring data from recovery points
•Restoring volumes from a recovery point
•Restoring a directory or file using Windows Explorer
•Restoring a directory or file and preserving permissions using Windows Explorer
The AppAssure Core can instantly restore data or recover machines to physical or virtual machines from the 
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Version 5.4.3 Revision B225 Finally, in contrast to restoring entire volumes, you can mount a recovery point from a Windows machine, and 
browse through individual folders and files to recover only a specific set of files. For more information, see 
Restoring a directory or file using Windows Explorer. If you need to perform this while preserving original file 
permissions (for example, when restoring a user’s folder on a file server), see Restoring a directory or file and...

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Version 5.4.3 Revision B226 2 From the Protected Machines page, select the protected machine for which you want to restore data, 
and then click Next.
The Recovery Points page appears.
3 From the list of recovery points, search for the snapshot you want to restore to the agent machine.
•If necessary, use the navigation buttons at the bottom of the page to display additional recovery 
points.
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Version 5.4.3 Revision B227 7 Back on the Core server, in the Destination page of the Restore Machine Wizard, select I already have a 
boot CD running on the target machine and enter the information about the machine to which you want 
to connect as described in the following table.
8Click Next.
If the connection information you entered matches the URC, and if the Core and the target server can 
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Restoring a directory or file using Windows 
Explorer
You can use Windows Explorer to copy and paste directories and files from a mounted recovery point to any 
Windows machine. This can be helpful when you want to distribute only a portion of a recovery point to your 
users.
When you copy directories and files, the access permissions of the user who is performing the copy operation 
are used and applied to the pasted directories and files. If you...