Datto BCDR: verified backups, offsite sync and recovery
For technicians who run Datto SIRIS and ALTO appliances: protecting systems, the default backup schedule, local and cloud retention, offsite synchronization, screenshot and application verification, ransomware detection, Cloud Deletion Defense, and choosing between file restore, local and cloud virtualization, Rapid Rollback and Bare Metal Restore.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 55 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Datto BCDR
Skills you'll practise
- Explain what screenshot verification proves, what it does not, and choose a screenshot schedule that fits the device's offsite plan
- Read an appliance's local and cloud retention settings and predict which recovery points will still exist
- Configure offsite synchronization bandwidth in line with Datto's guidance and check replication status
- Choose the right recovery method (file restore, local or cloud virtualization, Rapid Rollback, Bare Metal Restore) for a given failure
- Respond to a ransomware detection alert by finding the most recent clean recovery point
- Describe what Cloud Deletion Defense can and cannot recover and when to contact Datto support
Course outline
- 1.Datto BCDR: verified backups, offsite sync and recoveryVideo · 3 min
- 2.Protecting systems, schedules, retention and offsite syncLesson · 18 min
- 3.Verification: screenshots, applications and ransomware detectionLesson · 17 min
- 4.Restores and virtualization: choosing the methodLesson · 20 min
- 5.Datto BCDR: verified backups, offsite sync and recovery: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 18 questions
- 6.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Datto help: Introduction to Screenshot Verification
- Datto help: Screenshot Verification settings
- Datto help: How virtualizations work
- Datto help: Local Virtualization Options
- Datto help: Performing Cloud and Hybrid virtualizations
- Datto help: Restore Options (Recovery Launchpad)
- Datto help: Understanding the retention process
- Datto help: Understanding offsite synchronization
- Datto help: Off-Site Synchronization Configuration
- Datto help: Ransomware Detection 101
- Datto help: What to do if a protected machine is infected with ransomware
- Datto help: Cloud Deletion Defense
- Datto help: Performing a local File Restore
- Datto help: Bare Metal Restore (BMR): Getting Started
- Datto help: Rapid Rollback: Getting Started
And 2 more.
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