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Windows System Options

The Windows systems options are supported only on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems.

The Windows system options are as follows:

• Traverse Directory Junctions and Volume Mount Points--Selecting this option causes the backup job to traverse the volume or the directory being specified to and take a backup of it. 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 backup job does not back up 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.
• Backup Mount Points as Part of the volume that they are mounted on--If you select this, the volumes referred to by the Volume Mount Points will be backed up 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 backed up as separate sessions. This option is available only when the previous option, Traverse Directory Junctions and Volume Mount Points, is selected.
• Preserve File Hard Links--If you enable this, Arcserve Backup preserves hard links during a restore.

Note: When you apply the Traverse Directory Junctions and Volume Mount Points and Backup Mount Points as Part of the volume that they are mounted on options to named, mounted volumes that contain virtual hard disks (VHDs), Arcserve Backup creates separate backup 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 back up C:\MountD and specify the Traverse Directory Junctions and Volume Mount Points option, and the Backup Mount Points as Part of the volume that they are mounted option is enabled or disabled, Arcserve Backup creates separate backup sessions for drive D:\ and C:\MountD.