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Media Assure & Scan Utility

The Media Assure & Scan Utility lets you collect information about your media backup sessions. Each source that you specify to back up is saved on media as an individual session. Using the Media Assure & Scan Utility you can scan the following types of sessions:

• Single sessions or an entire media.
• A range of sessions, for example:
  • Specific start session to a specific end session.
  • Specific start session to the end of the media.

The results of the Scan job display in the Job Queue. You would need to do this if you are trying to recover an Arcserve Backup server and you need to identify the most recent backup of the Arcserve Backup database so that you can restore it.

If you would like a Scan job to produce a detailed listing of your media contents, use the Log All activity feature on the scan options tab. You can also use the Media Assure & Scan utility if you want a list of the files that were backed up.

Arcserve Backup provides several types of advanced scan options:

• Backup Media--Specifies media options for the job.
• Operation--Specifies general options for the job such as to scan files with CRC verification or to enable database recording.
• Pre/Post--Runs commands or batch files before or after the job.
• Job Log--Determines the level of detail you want recorded in the Job Queue Log.
• Alert--Sends messages about events in your operation.