CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager lets you specify the destination settings for your information to be file copied.
To specify file copy destinations
The Policies screen opens.
The New Policy dialog opens.
CA ARCserve D2D lets you specify the settings for file copying your backed up files to a disk or to the cloud. For file copying, you can specify to perform a copy and retain or a copy and move of your backed up data. The two processes are similar, with the exception that when you perform a copy and move, the data is moved from the source to the destination (deleted from source location) and provides more available free space at your source. When you perform a copy and retain, the data is copied from the source to the destination (remains on source destination) and provides multiple stored versions.
You can click the Configure button to display the Cloud Configuration dialog. For more information, see Specify Cloud Configuration Details for File Copy.
Note: To eliminate any potential clock skew error when attempting to connect to the cloud, verify that your machine has the correct time zone set and the clock is in sync with the global time. You should always check the time of your machine against the GMT time. If the time of your machine is not synchronized with the correct global clock time (within 5 to 10 minutes), Amazon S3 will not work. If necessary, reset the correct time for your machine and rerun your archive job.
For either destination option, if the connection to the specified destination is lost or broken, CA ARCserve D2D makes several attempts to continue the file copy job. If these reattempts are not successful, a makeup job is performed from the point where the failure occurred. In addition, the activity log is updated with a corresponding error message and an email notification is sent (if configured).
Compression is usually performed to decrease your storage space but also has an inverse impact on your file copy speed due to the increased CPU usage.
The available options are:
Specifies the amount of time (years, months, weeks, days) that the stored data is retained at the destination location. At the end of the specified retention time period, the stored data is purged from the destination.
The retention time calculations are based upon a month being 30 days and a year being 365 days. For example: If you specify a retention time of 2 years, 2 months, and 5 days, then the total retention time for your file copied data will be 795 days (365 + 365 + 30 + 30 + 5).
Important! Because this retention time setting only applies to data that has been copied and moved from the source to the destination (and not copied and retained), it is important to understand that at the end of the specified retention time when the data is purged from the destination, all of this moved data will no longer be stored or saved.
Specifies the number of copies retained and stored at the destination location (cloud or disk). After this number is exceeded, the earliest (oldest) version will be discarded. This cycle of discarding the oldest stored version will repeat as newer versions are added to the destination, allowing you to always maintain the specified number of stored versions.
For example, if your specified File Versions retention count is set to 5 and you perform five file copies at a time: t1, t2, t3, t4, and t5, these file copies become the five file copy versions retained and available to recover. After the 6th file copy is performed (new version is saved), CA ARCserve D2D will remove the t1 copy and the five available versions to recover are now t2, t3, t4, t5, and t6.
By default, the number of copies retained at the destination location before discarding is 15.
The file copy destination settings are saved.
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