Manual Checkpoint Creation

Hello Adrienne,

Mike from Zerto here. To answer your questions:

-How are they created? – Please see the following for directions on how to manually create a checkpoint: http://s3.amazonaws.com/zertodownload_docs/Latest/Zerto%20Virtual%20Replication%20Zerto%20Virtual%20Manager%20%28ZVM%29%20-%20vSphere%20Online%20Help/index.html?cb=1567533051#page/AdministratorforZertoVirtualManager%2FCheckpoint.html
-Can they be scripted? – The Zerto PowerShell CMDlets have a Set-Checkpoint command to manually create a checkpoint, and that can be used in a scripting capacity. For more information, please see the following: http://s3.amazonaws.com/zertodownload_docs/Latest/Zerto%20Virtual%20Replication%20Zerto%20Virtual%20Manager%20%28ZVM%29%20-%20vSphere%20Online%20Help/index.html?cb=1567533051#page/PowerShellCmdlets%2FCmdlets.3.16.html
-What benefit do they provide us? – In addition to the automatically generated checkpoints, you can add checkpoints manually to ensure application consistency and to identify events that might influence recovery, such as a planned switch-over to a secondary generator. You can recover the machines in a VPG to any checkpoint in the journal, to one added automatically or to one added manually. Thus, recovery is done to a point-in-time when the data integrity of the protected virtual machines is ensured.

Hello,

We are also looking to do the same, however neither link above is working.

Also wondering is there a way to leverage the API to create these checkpoints?

Hello,

The following is a link to the Zerto administration guide:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/zertodownload_docs/Latest/Zerto%20Virtual%20Manager%20vSphere%20Administration%20Guide.pdf?cb=1625242070

Starting on page 386 is detail regarding manually adding checkpoints to a VPG

The following is a link to the Zerto Powershell cmdlets guide:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/zertodownload_docs/7.5_Latest/Zerto%20Virtual%20Replication%20PowerShell%20Cmdlets%20Guide.pdf?cb=1625242243

Staring on page 52 is detail regarding the use of the set-checkpoint cmdlet.

I hope you find this useful. Thank you.

Joe