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Cross-Job Duplicated Source Check

When you submit a repeat or rotation or GFS backup job, Arcserve Backup checks if any of the source is part of an existing repeat backup job. If a duplicate source is found, a message appears asking whether you want to proceed with the duplicate source. If you click Yes, the job is submitted and Arcserve Backup backs up the duplicated source multiple times. If you click No, the backup job is not submitted; you can remove the duplicate sources and submit the job again.

For example, suppose you create two customized source groups, one for the sales servers of all geographic locations and the other for all the servers of a specific geographic location. Suppose you create two repeating backup jobs, one to back up all the sales servers every Friday and the other to back up all the servers of the geographic location every Friday. Your sales servers will be part of both the backup jobs. When you submit the second job, Arcserve Backup displays a message that the sales servers are part of two backup jobs and asks if you want to proceed with creating the second job. If you click Yes, the sales servers are backed up twice; if you click No, the job is not submitted, and Source tab is displayed, so that you can exclude the sales servers from the second job and submit it again.