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Archive Manager Advanced Options

The Advanced option for archiving determines how Arcserve Backup handles the file system extensions when an archive job is running.

The Windows system options are as follows:

Note: The following options are not supported on Windows operating systems that are older than Windows XP.

• Traverse Directory Junctions and Volume Mount Points--Selecting this option causes the archive job to traverse the volume or the directory being specified to and gets archived. At the time of restore of this session, you can restore files and directories contained in the referred to volume or directory. When this option is not selected, the archive job does not archive the volume or the directory being referred to by the volume mount point or the directory junction respectively. Therefore, at the time of restore, you cannot restore a file or directory contained in the referred to volume or directory.
• Archive Mount Points as Part of the volume that they are mounted--If you select this, the volumes referred to by the Volume Mount Points will be archived as part of the same session as the Volume Mount Points. When this option is not selected, the volumes referred to by the Volume Mount Points are archived as separate sessions. This option is available only when the previous option, Traverse Directory Junctions and Volume Mount Points, is selected.

Note: When you apply the Traverse Directory Junctions and Volume Mount Points and Archive Mount Points as Part of the volume that they are mounted options to named, mounted volumes that contain virtual hard disks (VHDs), Arcserve Backup creates separate archive sessions for mounted volumes that contain VHDs.

Example: Mounted Volumes that Contain VHDs

A server contains physical disk (C:\) that contains VHDs D:\ and E:\. VHD files (D.vhd and E.vhd) that reside in C:\ are mounted as drive D:\ and drive E:\. Drive D:\ is mounted to C:\MountD, and drive E:\ is mounted to C:\MountE.

If you archive C:\MountD and specify the Traverse Directory Junctions and Volume Mount Points option, and the Archive Mount Points as Part of the volume that they are mounted option is enabled or disabled, Arcserve Backup creates separate archive sessions for drive D:\ and C:\MountD.