Generations setup | |
Online ... generations | Indicates how many older generations of a backup file should be kept Online. |
Default Retention Rule | You can select a default Retention Rule (or create a new one). • Click [...] to open the "Select Retention Rule" screen. |
Backup options | |
Backup permissions | Backs up the file permissions. (ex: ACL on NTFS volumes, or Trustees on NetWare volumes.) |
Open files (Windows DS-Client) | |
Default Operation | Select from the list of operations: • Try deny write: Attempt to open backup file in 'Deny Write' mode. If this fails (because the file is already open), place the backup file in 'Allow Write' mode. • Deny write: This mode prevents any other process from writing to the backup file, while the DS-Client has it open. DS-Client will not back up the file, if another process has already opened it for write. (However, you may instruct the DS-Client to retry backing up the open file.) • Prevent write: Attempt to open backup file in 'Deny Write' mode. If this fails (because the file is already open), then open in Allow Write mode and lock the file, thereby preventing any process from writing to the file. This ensures that the most recent version of the file is backed up. • Allow write: Allow another process to read/write to the backup file (no restrictions). Since other applications can write to the file while it is being backed up, this may affect file consistency. |
Retry times | Specifies the number of times you want the DS-Client to attempt to backup the file. (Maximum of 10 retries). |
Retry interval (sec) | Specifies the interval between retries. (Maximum of 999 seconds). |
Backup schedule | |
List | Select from the list of defined schedules. |
New | Click to create a new schedule. |
Notification | |
Notification | You can add a single default notification that will apply to new backup sets. |
Add / Modify | Click to add a new notification, or edit the existing default notification. Opens the Add / Edit Notification screen (See "Add Notification screen".) |
Delete | Click to delete the existing default notification. |
Data Compression | |
Compression Type | You can select the default compression type that will be assigned to new backup sets: • LZOP: A faster compression than ZLIB, that comes at the expense of less compression. • ZLIB: This compression method will normally produce better compression than LZOP, but will take more time to compress. Choosing the best default compression: • ZLIB is a good default compression for backup environments where the ‘bottleneck’ (the slowest transmission point during the backup activity) is the network. • LZOP is a good default compression when the network is not the bottleneck. For example, when you are using a LAN speed connection and want backups to finish as fast as possible. |