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Specify Local Backup Options

Arcserve Backup gives you the power and flexibility to customize local options for specific drives that you want to back up.

To specify local backup options

1. Open the Backup Manager and select the Source tab.

   Click the check box next to the drive directory.

   Right-click the drive and select Local Options options from the pop-up menu to open the Local Options dialog.

   

   Important! When setting local options, you must select drives individually as your source even if you want to back up an entire server. You cannot click the green box next to the server name, and then customize local backup options for individual drives.

2. Specify the desired options:

   Backup Verification Options

   The Backup Verification options enable you to verify that your data was backed up correctly. The following options are available.

   • None--If you select this, no verification will be performed on the data backed up.
   • Scan Backup Media Contents--If you select this, Arcserve Backup scans the media and check that the header is readable for each file that is backed up.
   • Compare Backup Media to Disk--Select this if you want Arcserve Backup to read blocks from the media and compare, byte for byte, the data on the media against the files.

   Session/Encryption Password Option

   Use this option to specify a password to protect the data.

   • Session/Encryption Password--Enter a password for your backup job.

   Important! It is important that you remember the Session/Encryption password to restore this session. There is no way to reset this password.

   Compression and Encryption Options

   Use these options to specify whether files should be compressed or encrypted before they are backed up. These options are not supported on deduplication devices. If you specify a deduplication device group as the backup destination or as the staging destination, compression and encryption are skipped if detected.

   • Compress Files Before Backup Using Software Compression--Allows you to compress your files before running your backup job. Using this option directs Arcserve Backup to compress files before backing them up using a software compression algorithm. Since most tape devices are equipped with a hardware-based compression mechanism, using both software and hardware compression is unnecessary and can lead to a slow backup job and poor compression results. Therefore, you should select this option only if your tape drive is not equipped with a hardware compression mechanism.
   • Encrypt Files Before Backup--Allows you to encrypt your files before running your backup job.

   Important! Arcserve Backup performs local compression and encryption at the agent system. When you specify local compression and encryption and Arcserve server-based compression and encryption (global option), Arcserve Backup performs the compression and encryption at the agent system.

   Note: For more information about specifying Arcserve server-based compression and encryption, see Backup Manager Backup Media Options.

   NTFS Data Deduplication

   This option lets you perform optimized backups for full backups only on NTFS data deduplication enabled volumes. You can use this option on computers that are running the Windows Server 2012 operating system.

   Default value: Disabled.

   Note: For more information about NTFS Data Deduplication, see How NTFS Deduplication Works or the Microsoft Windows Development Center website.

3. Click OK to apply the local settings to the specified volume.

More information:

Local Backup Options for UNIX and Linux Agents