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Specify Advanced Backup Settings

CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager lets you specify advanced settings for your backups.

To specify advanced backup 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. Click the Advanced tab.

   The Advanced Settings options dialog opens.

   

4. Specify the advanced actions setting options.
   • Truncate Log--Specifies to truncate the accumulated transaction log files for the selected applications after the next successful backup.

     CA ARCserve D2D backups consist of a snapshot image and the transaction log files that were created for it. At some point in time, the older (committed) transaction log files are no longer needed and can be purged to make space for new log files. The process of purging these log files is called truncating the log. This option enables truncating of committed transaction log files, which conserves disk space.

     The available options are SQL Server and Exchange Server. You can select either, both, or none of these applications. If you select any of these applications, you can also specify a scheduled time period (Daily, Weekly, or Monthly) for automatic log truncation:

     Note: The transaction log files cannot be truncated without performing a successful backup.

     • Daily--Each day after the backup completes successfully, the committed transaction logs will be purged immediately.
     • Weekly--After seven days, the committed transaction logs will be purged immediately after the backup completes successfully.
     • Monthly--After 30 days, the committed transaction logs will be purged immediately after the backup completes successfully.

     If a backup job is already running at the same time the purging is scheduled to be performed, the purging operation is moved to the next scheduled job.

     For Example:

     If you scheduled an Incremental Backup to run automatically every day at 5:00 pm, and start a Full Backup manually at 4:55 pm, then assume that the backup successfully finishes at 5:10 pm.

     In this case, the Incremental Backup that was scheduled for 5:00 pm will not run because the ad-hoc Full Backup is still in progress. Now the committed transaction log files will be purged after the next successful backup job. In this case it will be performed on the next day after the scheduled Incremental Backup completes successfully at 5:00 pm.

   • Exchange Granular Restore--Specifies whether or not to enable Exchange Granular Restore backups (which generates the Exchange Granular Restore catalogs during each backup).

     An Exchange Granular Restore backup captures information about the mail message, the mail folder, and the mailbox levels of Exchange in a single pass backup through the Exchange database. With this option enabled, you can then perform granular recoveries of the Exchange database by selecting from a list of objects inside Exchange and specifying exactly what you want to recover without first having to recover or dump the Exchange database to an alternate location.

     • The advantage of enabling this option is that with an Exchange Granular Restore catalog, there is no need to wait a long time to perform a restore browse.
     • The disadvantage of enabling this option is when you generate a Granular Restore catalog during each backup, it results in an increased backup window and workload. CA ARCserve D2D is required to go to each mailbox, authenticate, and build the granular information, which considering the number of mailboxes and size of data, could be a time consuming task.
     • If you disable Exchange Granular Restore, CA ARCserve D2D saves the basic information for Exchange. Before you restore, you have the opportunity to generate an Exchange Granular Restore catalog at that time.
   • Administrator Account--Specifies the User Name and Password with access rights to perform the backup. CA ARCserve D2D verifies that the name and password are valid and that the user belongs to an administrator group.

     Be aware of the following:

     • To specify a domain account, the format for user name is a fully qualified domain user name in the form of "<domain name>\<user name>".
     • If the Administrator Account information for the CA ARCserve D2D server is changed (User Name/Password), then reconfiguring the Administrator Account information from this dialog is recommended.
     • If you do not specify the Administrator Account credentials, then CA ARCserve D2D automatically enters the account information where the policy is deployed to.
5. Click Save.

The advanced backup settings are saved.