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Specify Copy Recovery Points Settings

CA ARCserve D2D lets you specify the schedule settings for your recovery points to be copied (and exported if necessary). For a better understanding about how the options on this dialog can be used to configure your recovery point copy schedule, see Copy Recovery Points - Example Scenarios.

Note: The recovery point copy process is a copy and paste operation only and not a cut and paste operation. As a result, whenever a scheduled copy recovery point job is performed CA ARCserve D2D creates an additional copy of the recovery point to the specified copy destination, while still retaining the original copy of the recovery point at the backup destination that was specified in Backup Settings.

To specify copy recovery points settings

1. From the CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager home page, click Policies on the Navigation bar.

   The Policies screen opens.

2. Click New to create a new policy.

   The New Policy dialog opens.

3. Select the Copy Recovery Points tab.

   The Copy Recovery Points dialog opens.

   

4. Specify your recovery point copy schedule settings.

   Enable Copy Recovery Points

   Enables the scheduled copying of recovery points after the specified number of backups. If this option is not checked, no scheduled copying of recovery points will be performed.

   Destination

   Specifies the location (destination) for the copy of the recovery points or you can browse to a copy location. You can click on the green arrow icon button to verify the connection to the specified location.

   The Copy Recovery Points job will run after the specified number of backups are performed.

   Specifies when the scheduled recovery point copy process will be automatically launched.

   The recovery point copy process will be launched automatically after the specified number of successful backups and will be based on your selected copy policies.

   You can use this setting to control how many times a recovery point copy process will be triggered each day. For example, if you specify to run a backup job every 15 minutes, then if you specify to copy the recovery points run an after every 4 backups, there will be 24 recovery point copy jobs performed each day (1 each hour).

   By default, the schedule for recovery point copy is after every 8 successful backups are completed.

   Important! If you schedule backup and copy jobs to run at regular intervals and if the copy job is currently running (in active state) when the scheduled time for the backup job time arrives, the backup job will fail. (The next backup job will run as scheduled and should be successful if it does not conflict with another copy job). Because the copy operation will take almost same amount of time as performing a full backup, the best practice is not to set a frequent schedule for your recovery point copy jobs.

   Specify the number of Copy Recovery Points to keep.

   Specifies the number of recovery points retained and stored at the specified copy destination. After this number is exceeded, the earliest (oldest) recovery point will be discarded. This cycle of discarding the oldest recovery points will repeat as newer recovery points are added to the destination, allowing you to always maintain the specified number of stored recovery points.

   Note: If you destination does not have sufficient free space, you may consider reducing the number of saved recovery points.

   By default the retention count is set to 31 recovery points.

   Note: The maximum number of recovery points is 1344.

   Compression

   Specifies the type of compression to be used for recovery point copies.

   Compression is typically performed to decrease your disk space usage, but also has an inverse impact on your backup speed due to the increased CPU usage.

   The available options are:

   • No Compression - Compression is not performed. Files are pure VHD. This option has the lowest CPU usage (fastest speed), but also has the highest disk space usage for your backup image.
   • No Compression - VHD - Compression is not performed. Files are converted to .vhd format directly, without the need for manual operations. This option has the lowest CPU usage (fastest speed), but also has the highest disk space usage for your backup image.
   • Standard Compression - Some compression is performed. This option provides a good balance between CPU usage and disk space usage. This setting is the default setting.
   • Maximum Compression - Maximum compression is performed. This option provides the highest CPU usage (lowest speed), but also has the lowest disk space usage for your backup image.

   Note: If your backup image contains uncompressible data (such as JPG images or ZIP files), additional storage space can be allocated to handle such data. As a result, if you select any compression option and you have uncompressible data in your backup, it can actually result in an increase in your disk space usage.

   Encryption Algorithm

   Specify the type of encryption algorithm to be used for the recovery point copies.

   Data encryption is the translation of data into a form that is unintelligible without a deciphering mechanism. CA ARCserve D2D data protection uses secure, AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption algorithms to achieve maximum security and privacy of your specified data.

   The available format options are No Encryption, AES-128, AES-192, and AES-256. (To disable encryption, select No Encryption).

   Encryption Password

   If the recovery point to be copied was previously encrypted, you will need to provide (and confirm) the password.

   • If the recovery point is being copied to a location on the same machine, the encryption password will be remembered and this field will be automatically populated.
   • If the recovery point is being copied to a different machine, you will need to enter the encryption password.

5. Click Save Settings.

The Copy Recovery Point settings are saved.