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Archive Manager

In this release, CA ARCserve Backup includes a new manager console called Archive Manager. The Archive Manager enables you to set archive schedule and policies for the selected Windows, UNIX/Linux and MAC file system data and submit archive jobs.

You can view the following tabs in the Archive Manager console:

• Start--Lets you specify the type of archive job that you want to submit. You can submit normal archive, deduplication archive, staging archive, and archive to cloud storage.
• Source--Lets you specify the data that you want to archive. This tab only displays Windows, UNIX/Linux and MAC client agents.
• Schedule--Lets you specify a repeat method for the job.

  Note: Archive jobs require full backups; a run once job schedule option is not available.

• Policies--Lets you specify a file pattern, directory pattern, file attribute, host name pattern, file size, when the file was last accessed, modified or created, and data verification.
• Destination--Lets you specify the location where you want to store your archive files. This tab only displays the following devices: Deduplication, Tape, and Cloud.

The Archive Manager lets you:

• Set retention times to define the length of time that archive media is not used before it is moved to the scratch set (tape media) or purged (deduplication devices and backup to cloud devices).
• Delete archived data automatically that has expired retention dates from archive media.
• Search for data that is eligible for archiving and back it up, and then delete the archived data from its original location immediately.
• Retrieve archived data from archive media with restore job.
• Set up email alerts to notify you when job-related events occur. For example, the job completed successfully, the job was canceled by the user, and so on.

You can archive files to cloud with the following considerations:

• Cloud Archive Option is selected at the Start tab;

  Note: If this option is not selected, Cloud device will not be available as your destination.

• Archived files are not backed up to cloud device directly, instead archived files are backed up to a disk staging device first and then migrated to cloud device.

You can view archive status from the following Dashboard Reports.

• Node Archive Status Report
• Job Archive Status Report
• Total Protection Size Report