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Dynamic Job Packaging

If you mark a database instance for dynamic job packaging when defining a backup job, Arcserve Backup automatically selects, at the time the backup job runs, all the components of the object (for example, child volumes and files) for backup.

For example, if you choose to back up an entire server and mark the server for dynamic job packaging and you change the volumes on the server, when you run the next backup job, the volumes on the server at the time of the backup are the volumes that are backed up. Any change that you make on the server marked for dynamic job packaging is included in the next backup.

Note: If you select the whole SQL Server instance for backup and then select backup options for individual databases, the individual database backup options are ignored. Only when you select the individual databases, selected per-database options are packaged and retained when you want to modify the job.

Important! When you mark a parent object for dynamic job packaging, all of its associated (or child) objects are also marked for dynamic job packaging and are selected for backup. Child objects of an object marked for dynamic packaging lose any separate options you have assigned them when the job is submitted.