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Staging Location Tab

To access the information and options on the Staging Location tab, start the Backup Manager and select the Staging Location tab.

The Staging Location tab contains the following options and informational fields:

Group Field

Displays the name of the group selected for this job.

Note: A staging group must be selected in a staging job. Specifying a "*" group is not allowed for staging.

Max Number of Streams

Specifies the maximum number of simultaneous data streams that this job would be allowed to use while writing to the FSD in the staging group. For example, if the maximum number of streams is specified at 4, this means that at any point of time this staging job will have no more than 4 child jobs writing to the FSD simultaneously. To specify more than two streams, you must license the Enterprise Module.

Staging Groups Directory Tree

Displays the names of the groups which were configured as staging groups.

Properties View

From the properties view in the Backup Manager, you can perform the following tasks:

• Create Disk-based Devices--Lets you open Disk-based Device Configuration so that you can configure Windows file system devices and deduplication devices.
• Configure Groups--Lets you open Device Group Configuration so that you can configure device groups.
• Set Disk-based Device Group Properties--Lets you open File System Device Group Configuration so that you can configure staging group properties.