Creating Plans to Protect Data › How to Create a Windows Backup Plan › Create a Backup Plan with a Backup Task › Specify the Source

Specify the Source

The Source page lets you specify the source nodes that you want to protect. You can select more than one node in a plan. If you have not added any nodes to the Console, you can add nodes when you create or modify a plan from the Source page. You can also save a plan without adding any source nodes. The plan gets deployed only after you add source nodes.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Source tab and click Add Node.
2. Select one of the following options:

   Select Nodes to Protect

   Opens the Select Nodes to Protect dialog and you can select the nodes from the displayed list. Select this option if you have already added the nodes to the Console.

   Adding Windows Nodes

   Opens the Add Nodes to Arcserve UDP Console dialog. Select this option if you have not added the nodes and you want to manually add the nodes to protect.

   Discovering Nodes from Active Directory

   Opens the Add Nodes to Arcserve UDP Console dialog. Select this option if you want to discover and add nodes from the Active Directory.

3. (Optional) Select a filter from the Groups drop-down list to filter nodes. You can enter keywords to further filter your nodes.

   

   The nodes are displayed on the Available Nodes area.

4. Select the nodes from the Available Nodes area and click the Add all nodes (>>) or Add selected nodes (>) icon.

   The selected nodes are displayed on the Selected Nodes area.

5. Click OK to close the dialog.
6. To choose Protection Type, select one of the following options:

   Back up all volumes

   Prepares a backup snapshot of all the volumes.

   Back up selected volumes

   Prepares a backup snapshot of the selected volume.

The source is specified.