When you open the Explore page by clicking on the Explore button in the left panel, you will be presented with a calendar showing the current day of the current month.


Dates of the month that are in bold font are days when a protection plan has run. (Please refer to View Options, below, for more information.) Clicking on one of those dates will show the protection plans that were executed for that day in the panel on the bottom of the page. For each time the plan was successfully run on that day, there will be a corresponding "recovery point" listed.


Select the recovery point (archive time) you would like to restore. Notice that the Status column shows "Available" or "Offline". The Status "Available" means that the recovery point can be viewed and explored or restored because the storage containing those plans is currently available to the computer. The Status "Offline" means that the storage containing those plans is not currently available. The name of the storage is displayed under the "Store" column.


If the selected recovery point is from a Folders and Files plan run, you can Explore the restore point by clicking the Explore button in the lower right, or you can Restore the whole restore point either to its original location or an alternate location of your choosing. See Exploring and Restoring Folders and Files for details.


If the selected recovery point is from a SQL Server or Exchange protection plan run, you can only Restore the restore point; the Explore button will be disabled. See Restoring Exchange Storage Groups or Restoring SQL Server Databases for details.



View Options


By clicking the View Options box of the Explore page you can collapse/expand the View Options section. Each time the User Interface is started, the View Options section will be shown expanded.


  • Only show recovery points for this computer


The Explore view can become cluttered with unrelated recovery points when more than one installation of this software is archiving to the same storage location. You can filter this view to show only recovery points from this installation by checking "Only show recovery points for this computer". This option is checked by default.


  • Hide offline protection plans


By default, recovery points are shown regardless of availability status. To see only recovery points for storage that is available, check the "Hide offline protection plans" option.