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Manage File Copy Settings

CA ARCserve D2D lets you copy selected source files (copy or move) from a backup session to a destination (disk or cloud) based upon your specified file copy and retention criteria. File Copy can be used for copying critical data to secondary locations and can also be used as an archiving solution. File Copy allows you to safely and securely delete the source data after it has been copied to an off-site or secondary storage repository.

The advantages of copying files are:

• Improve Efficiency - Helps you to speed backup and recovery processes by copying and moving unchanged data and reduce the amount of real data being backed up and stored to tape or disk.
• Meet Regulatory Compliance - Helps you to preserve important documents, emails, and other critical data, as necessary to comply with internal rules and external regulations.
• Reduce Storage Cost - Helps you to reclaim storage capacity by migrating older or infrequently accessed data from your primary systems to more cost-effective archival storage locations.
• Maintain Multiple File Versions - Helps you to roll back to previous versions of backed-up files (if necessary) or maintain multiple versions of the same files at different destinations.

Before you perform your first File Copy job, specify the File Copy settings and policies. These configurations allow you to specify behaviors such as the source of your file copy data, destination for your copied files, the schedule for each file copy job, and the settings and filters applied to your file copy jobs. These settings can be modified at any time from the CA ARCserve D2D home page.

Note: To improve the performance (upload speed and server load), File Copy can upload the data to the specified destination in parallel chunks. To configure the number of chunks that are simultaneously sent to the destination, see Configure File Copy Chunk Value.

Note: The File Copy job always applies the policies that were defined at the time of catalog generation for that session, and not the policies that were defined at the time of backup.

To manage the File Copy settings, click the Settings link on the CA ARCserve D2D home page and select the File Copy Settings tab. The File Copy Settings dialogs consist of the following subordinate tab options:

• Source
• Destination
• Schedule