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Understanding the Rapid Recovery PowerShell module
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Understanding the Rapid Recovery
PowerShell module
Dell Data Protection | Rapid Recovery consists of several software components. Key components relevant to this
topic include the following:
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The Rapid Recovery Core manages authentication for protected machines, schedules for transferring data for backup
and replication, export to virtual machines, reporting, and bare metal restore (BMR) to similar or dissimilar hardware.
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The Rapid Recovery Agent is responsible for taking volume snapshots and for fast transfer of the data to the repository
managed by the Core.
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The Rapid Recovery PowerShell Module is a Windows utility that lets users interact with the Core server by using
Windows PowerShell
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scripts. This module offers some of the same functionality that the Rapid Recovery Core Console
graphic user interface (GUI) provides. For example, the Rapid Recovery PowerShell Module can mount Rapid Recovery
recovery points or force a snapshot of a protected machine.
Figure 13. The PowerShell module interacts with the Rapid RecoveryCore
PowerShell is a Microsoft .NET Framework-connected environment designed for administrative automation. This
section describes the Rapid Recovery PowerShell module and the cmdlets administrators can use to script certain
functions without interaction with the Rapid Recovery Core GUI.