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Backup Manager Destination Options

The destination is the backup media device or disk. You can use the Destination tab in the Backup Manager to browse to and select the groups and device.

Note: Cloud devices are not available as a backup destination.

The Backup Manager Destination tab includes the following backup options:

Multiplexing

The following options regulate how Arcserve Backup handles multiplexing.

• Maximum Number of Streams--Sets the maximum number of streams that can write to a tape at the same time. The default number of streams is 4 and the supported range is from 2 through 32.

Note: Multiplexing is not supported for UNIX/Linux Data Mover backup jobs.

Multistreaming

The Multistreaming option lets you split single backup jobs into multiple jobs and use all of the available tape devices in your system to complete the backup. For more information, see Multistreaming.

Group and Media field

Use the Group and Media field to specify the device group that you want to use for the backup job.

• Place an asterisk in the Group or Media field to use the first available drive and media in the group.
• If you want to use any available group, click the Use Any Group option.

Media Pool

Select this option if you want to use a specific media pool for the backup job.

Be aware of the following:

• If you select a Media Pool, Arcserve Backup automatically checks that the other destination and backup options you selected to verify that no restrictions or conflicts occur when you run the job. If Arcserve Backup detects a conflict, a warning dialog opens.
• Cloud Device cannot be assigned to a Media Pool.

Server

This field displays the name or the primary server and member servers in your Arcserve Backup domain.

Note: If you did not install the Central Management Option, the name of the current server displays in this field.

With Enable Staging checked:

Deduplication Policy

Click this button to open the Deduplication Purge Policies dialog. This dialog lets you set the purge policy for full and differential/incremental backups.

Create Duplicate in-line

Select this check box to enable the Group, Duplicate Media prefix, and Duplicate Media pool prefix fields. These fields enable you to perform a Double Tape Copy, where you can migrate the data to two final destinations at the same time. To ensure that the migration job continues when one of the devices become unavailable, you can set a timeout value for additional backup media to continue the migration job in another device. If you do not set a timeout value, then the data migration job fails after the first backup media timeout completes. For more details about setting the timeout value, see Backup Manager Backup Media Options.

Note: Ensure that a Disk Staging device is configured on your environment to perform a Double Tape Copy.

Group

Select a device group from the drop-down to determine where the duplicate is created.

Note: Tape/Changer groups and File System Device (FSD) groups are the only device groups available. When the backup job is submitted and the same device group is selected for both the final destination and the duplicate destination, the application will verify that there are two or more drives.

Duplicate Media prefix

This field lets you specify a prefix for the media name you want to duplicate. For example, "CPY_<media name>".

Duplicate Media pool prefix

This field lets you specify a prefix for the media pool name you want to duplicate. For example, "TEST_<media pool name>".

Note: To back data using disk staging, use Device Configuration and Device Group Configuration to configure the staging device. For more information, see Backup Staging Methods.

More information:

How Arcserve Backup Processes Backup Data Using Multistreaming