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Specify the Advanced Backup Settings

CA ARCserve D2D lets you specify the Advanced Settings for your backups.

Note: To view a video that is related to these Backup Settings, see Manage Backup Settings.

Follow these steps:

1. From the CA ARCserve D2D home page (or CA ARCserve D2D Monitor), select Settings from the taskbar and then select the Backup Settings tab. When the Backup Settings dialog opens, select Advanced.

   The Advanced dialog opens.

   

2. Specify your advanced backup settings options.

   Truncate Log

   Truncates 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 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.

   Example:

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

   In this case, the Incremental Backup that is scheduled for 5:00 pm is skipped because the ad-hoc Full Backup is still in progress. Now the committed transaction log files are purged after the next successful backup job and be performed on the next day after the scheduled Incremental Backup completes successfully at 5:00 pm.

   Reserve Space on Destination

   This value indicates a percentage of the calculated space that is necessary to perform a backup. This amount of continuous space is then immediately reserved on the destination before the backup starts writing data and helps improve backup speed.

   Default: 10%.

   Example: Set the value to 10% and the current backup has 50 GB of data to back up. Before the backup starts writing data, it first reserves 5 GB of disk space. After the 5 GB of disk space is used up, it then reserves the next 5 GB of disk space. If the data remaining for the backup is less than 5 GB (suppose 2 GB are remaining to back up), then the remaining GB (in this example 2 GB) are reserved.

   Exchange Granular Restore Catalog

   Enables automatic generation of the Exchange Granular Restore catalogs after 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.

   • Advantages: With an Exchange Granular Restore catalog, there is no need to wait a long time to perform a restore browse.
   • Disadvantages: When you generate an Exchange Granular Restore catalog during each backup, it results in an increased backup window (additional time to complete the backup job) and an increased workload. CA ARCserve D2D must 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 this option, CA ARCserve D2D only saves the general information for Exchange. Before restore you have an 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 the user belongs to an administrator group.

   Important! If the Administrator Account credential information for the CA ARCserve D2D server is changed (User Name/Password), you must also reconfigure/update the Administrator Account information in this dialog.

   Note: To specify a domain account, the format for the user name is a fully qualified domain user name in the form of "<domain name>\<user name>".

   Recover Backup Destination Connection

   Lets you update (resynchronize) the connection information to your backup destination.

   You can use this option if you are performing periodic backups to a remote share computer and then you can change the access credentials (user name/password) for that remote computer. In this case, typically your next backup would fail because the access credentials configured at your local computer do not match the new credentials at the remote computer.

   Note: When you click the Update Connection button and the resynchronize process begins, you cannot cancel it.

   Before you click this Update button, perform the following tasks:

   • Log in to the remote destination computer and use the following net session command to disconnect the connection between the local CA ARCserve D2D computer and the remote computer:

     net session \\<computer name or IP address> /d

   • Return to the CA ARCserve D2D computer, and click the Update Connection button.
   • Enter new password for destination.
   • CA ARCserve D2D updates your configured credentials to match the new credential information at the remote share destination. A pop-up confirmation screen appears informing you that the credentials have been updated.

3. Click Save Settings.

   Your advanced backup settings are saved.