Dell AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery Product Demo Videos
Dell AppAssure 5 Feature-by-Feature Demos
Curious about a Dell AppAssure feature or capability? Our Dell AppAssure screencasts walk you feature-by-feature through the application, focusing on the parts you’re most interested in. Use them as a valuable reference during your trail or to quickly familiarize yourself with AppAssure.
Installation
A complete walk through of installing and initially configuring Dell AppAssure 5.
Running time: 9 minutes
Advanced Configuration
Learn how to fine tune Dell AppAssure configurations to fit the way you work. From mount options to retention setting and notifications, see the advanced features available to you in this 14-minute screencast.
Running time: 14 minutes.
Smart Agent Deployment
Learn how to deploy Dell AppAssure smart agents and the different options you can choose as you protect your workloads.
Running time: 9 minutes.
Central Console
Take a walk through Dell AppAssure’s Central Console and see the benefit of managing your virtual and physical environments all under a single pane of glass.
Running time: 4 minutes.
What Is a Recovery Point
Learn what recovery points are and how Dell AppAssure leverages them to perform backup functions, along with basic configuration of mount recovery points.
Running time: 5 minutes.
Bare Metal Recovery
See how Dell AppAssure’s bare metal recovery process excels at getting you back online fast and your users back working.
Running time: 8 minutes.
Recover a File
See how Dell AppAssure’s file-level recovery allows you to recover a file or folder containing several files, allowing you to address common everyday data recovery needs – like deletion – quickly and easily.
Running time: 2 minutes.
Restore a Volume and Live Recovery
See how you can recover a volume using Dell AppAssure’s LiveRecovery features, from the point of data loss in Exchange to a full recovery.
Running time: 8 minutes
SQL Settings and Features
See what key feature and configuration settings are available in Dell AppAssure to protect your Microsoft SQL servers and ensure recoverability.
Running time: 6 minutes.
SQL Server: Granular Recovery
You can use Dell AppAssure’s granular recovery capabilities to recover specific Microsoft SQL data – without have to stop or disrupt critical production databases. This screencast shows you how.
Running time: 7 minutes.
Virtual Standby
A warm Virtual Standby gives you the ability to have a clone of your production server ready to deploy in the event of a failure. See how this feature works and how it can improve your recovery time.
Running time: 7 minutes.
Replication
See how you can replicate data and achieve disaster recovery capability without the expensive overhead. Learn how block-level changes, read-match-write algorithms, and compression/deduplication combine to allow you to achieve disk transfer.
Running time: 7 minutes.
Exchange Settings and Features
See key features and configurations that allow you to manage and protect Microsoft Exchange servers with granularity and control.
Running time: 10 minutes.
Exchange Server: Granular Recovery
AppAssure 5 provides a granular level backup and recovery of individual mailboxes or even a single email. This screencast will show you how its done.
Running time: 5 minutes
Dell AppAssure 4.7 Feature-by-Feature Demos
For existing 4.7 users, this series of Dell AppAssure 4.7 screencasts can help you quickly familiarize yourself with specific AppAssure 4.7 features or serve as a quick refresher. If you’re evaluating Dell AppAssure as your end-to-end data protection solution, we suggest viewing the Dell AppAssure 5 feature-by-feature demo series.
Intro to the User Interface
AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery is incredibly easy to setup, use and manage. In this short video, you will see the basics for navigating in the product to get you started on your installation of testing of AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery.
Deploying Agents / Protecting Servers
Getting ready to deploy? This video will show you how to push the agent software from your Core server to the servers you want to protect using a simple wizard and the process of adding the server for protection.
What is a Recovery Point?
In this video, we walk you through the mechanics of a Recovery Point. What is a Recovery Point? What does it correlate to in the file system? And how to use and manage them.
Mountability Check for Exchange
How do you know if your most critical data is going to be recoverable? Walk through the process AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery uses to ensure that the Exchange data is recoverable, giving you the ability to sleep at night.
Recover a File
Navigating through the world of backup software interfaces, the one thing in common is the fact that the bulk of your recoveries are at the file / folder level and you are learning a new paradigm with every new tool you use. With AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery, we will show you how easy it is to recover files and folders in seconds.
Restore a Volume(s) / Live AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery
Ever lose a disk or a volume? Know what it takes to restore that volume in terms of time and effort? Users are down during the fix time as well as the recovery time. In this video, we will show you how AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery can recover whole volumes in seconds, making the data available instantly.
Recovery via Remote Mount of SQL data
Ever have a large database restore to recover a table, a couple of rows or some subset of data only to find out you don’t have the disk space to store it AND the production copy? In this video, we will show you how to use AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery to attach the database on your production server, WITHOUT restoring the data!
Bare Metal Restore Recovery
In this video, you will see the way we can get you up and running from a dead server onto a new server, either similar or dissimilar, in minutes instead of hours or days.
Message Level Recovery For Exchange
The most common response we receive when we ask the question “How do you respond when your end user asks if he can get deleted mail back” is “Sorry… we don’t offer that…” Why? Because with any other solution, it is too complex and takes too much time. Time is money! In this video, you will see just how easy it is to recover lost/deleted/corrupt messages in a few mouse clicks.
Creating a Virtual Standby
Ever lose a server? Know what it takes to get a replacement? Can you wait a day? 2 days? Or longer for that new iron to roll into your server room? Virtual Standby will allow you to create a virtual machine copy of your physical or virtual server and keep it up to date with the latest data allowing you push button failover to get you back online in minutes. See how we set that up here.
Replication
Tired of running tapes out the door? In this video, we will show you how AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery replicates your data to another site, the cloud, or even your desktop in your home office. Not only replicate it, but allow you to use it just like you can in the production side, at a fraction of the cost of other solutions.
Events and Troubleshooting
In this video, we will show you how to find out what’s going on in your AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery environment, how to set up notifications, and the best ways to gather the appropriate information to solve problems fast.
Rollup & Retention
In this video, we will show you how AppAssure Backup, Replication & Recovery can maintain your data, keeping what you want for the length of time you desire, and keep it manageable.
DocRetriever for SharePoint – Recovering Documents, Folders, etc…
Got SharePoint? Then you need to see this product in action. We will take you through the product, showing you how to recover files, folders, sub-sites, sites, and whole farms in minutes.



























