The file copy task lets you copy individual files to the specified destination. You can either retain the original copy or delete the original copy after you have copied the files to the specified destination.
Note:
You can create a File Copy task if you have selected the following two options in the backup task:
The backup destination is a local disk or a shared folder. It should not be Arcserve UDP Recovery Point Server.
The
Generate File System catalog for faster search after each backupcheck box is selected.
Note: If a backup job is in progress and you pause the plan, the backup job will get over and the file copy job will not start. When you resume the plan again, the file copy job is not resumed automatically. You have to manually run another backup job to start the file copy job.
Follow these steps:
A new task is added to the left pane.
The File Copy task is added.
Lets you add a plan and select the plan type. When you click Add, the Plan type dialog opens.
Lets you remove the selected source and plan type.
Lets you modify the selected source and plan type.
Note:
Arcserve UDP does not copy application files, files with system attributes, and files with temporary attributes.
Note: File copy does not support mounted volumes as the source. If you attempt to select a mounted volume as the source, then no files will be copied.
Note: If a symbolic link is selected when specifying the File Copy source folder, it is replaced with the actual path it points to when saving the settings. When you restore file copies, the actual path is displayed instead of the symbolic link.
Data is copied from the source to the destination (remains on source location) and provides multiple stored versions on the destination.
Data is moved from the source to the destination (deleted from source location) and provides more available free space at your source.
When you select File Copy - Delete Source, a warning message is immediately displayed alerting you that your specified file copied data will be moved (deleted) from and no longer available at the original source location. Click OK to continue to the File Copy Policies dialog.
For files copied using the File Copy - Delete Source option, Arcserve UDP leaves a stub file with the "D2DARC" extension. The stub file contains information about the destination where the files were moved. If a file is restored to the original location and then gets moved again to the specified destination, then the stub file is updated with this move information. If necessary, these file copy stub files can be safely disabled or deleted without any negative impact. (Existing stub files are not deleted when the registry key is changed to no longer create stub files).
If you want to disable the stub file creation, access or create the registry key “HKLM\SOFTWARE\CA\arcserve Unified Data Protection\Engine\AfArchiveDll” and then create a DWORD named "CreateStubFile" with the value set to 0.
Note: If you disable or delete the file copy stub files, you can no longer track the status and location of moved files.
Depending upon the plan type that is selected, a different File Copy Plan dialog opens; however, the selections are similar.
Note: For more information on the File Copy Plans or File Copy - Delete Source Plans dialog, see Specify File Copy Plan.
Specifies the destination location for the file copy job. You can only select one destination.
Arcserve UDP 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.
When selected, lets you specify the full path of the location where you want to move or copy the source files/folders. The destination can be any local volume or folder or a file share accessible by any uniform naming convention (UNC) path. You can browse to this destination location. Clicking the green arrow icon lets you validate the connection to the specified destination.
When selected, lets you specify the cloud location where you want to move or copy the source files/folders. Arcserve UDP currently supports file copying to multiple cloud vendors, such as Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Windows Azure, Fujitsu Cloud (Windows Azure), and Eucalyptus-Walrus. These cloud vendors are publicly available web services which let you safely and securely store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the Web.
You can click the Configure button to display the Cloud Configuration dialog. For more information, see Specify Cloud Configuration 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. 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), your cloud connection may not work. If necessary, reset the correct time for your machine and rerun your file copy job.
For either destination option, if the connection to the specified destination is lost or broken, Arcserve UDP makes several attempts to continue the file copy job. If these reattempts are not successful, a makeup job is then 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).
Specifies the type of compression that is used for the File Copy jobs.
Compression is performed to decrease your storage space at the File Copy destination, but also has an inverse impact on your file copy speed due to the increased CPU usage.
Note:
For a compressed File Copy job, the Activity log displays only the uncompressed size.
The available options are:
No compression is performed. This option has the lowest CPU usage (fastest speed), but also has the largest storage space requirement for your file copy.
Some compression is performed. This option provides a good balance between CPU usage and storage space requirement. This is the default setting.
Maximum compression is performed. This option provides the highest CPU usage (lowest speed), but also has the lowest storage space requirement for your file copy.
Specifies to use encryption for file copying.
Data encryption is the translation of data into a form that is unintelligible without a deciphering mechanism. Arcserve UDP data protection uses secure, AES-256 (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption algorithms to achieve maximum security and privacy of your specified data.
When an encryption is selected, you must provide (and confirm) an encryption password.
This setting only applies to file copied data that is moved (not file copy data that is retained).
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 is 795 days (365 + 365 + 30 + 30 + 5).
Important!
The
retention time setting only applies to data that has been copied and moved from the source to the destination (and not copied and retained). At the end of the specified retention time when the data is purged from the destination, all of this moved data is no longer stored or saved.Note:
The Retention Time purge process is only triggered if the File Copy Schedule option is enabled.
This setting only applies to copied data that is retained (not copied data that is moved).
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 repeats 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 times t1, t2, t3, t4, and t5, these file copies become the five file copy versions retained and available to recover. After the sixth file copy is performed (new version is saved), Arcserve UDP 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 job runs after the specified number of backup is fulfilled.
The changes are saved and the file copy task is automatically deployed to the node.
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