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How Arcserve Database Recovery Wizard Works

Each time you run a backup job, Arcserve Backup records information in its databases about the machines, directories, and files that have been backed up, and the media that was used. This allows you to locate files whenever you need to restore them. Arcserve Database Recovery Wizard is a self-protection utility that lets you recover the Arcserve Backup database if it fails and was backed up by the Arcserve Backup domain that is using the database.

Arcserve Database Recovery Wizard interacts with the Arcserve Backup Agent for Microsoft SQL Server to facilitate the recovery of the database. You can use the wizard to recover Arcserve Backup databases that are hosted by Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition.

Arcserve Database Recovery Wizard lets you recover the Arcserve Backup database from the following sources:

• Sessions retrieved from ASDBBackups log files. Sessions retrieved from this source can consist of full, incremental, and differential backups.
• Sessions retrieved by scanning devices connected to the backup server. Sessions retrieved from this source can consist only of full backups.

Note: Arcserve Database Recovery Wizard does not create jobs that appear in the Job Queue.