Creating Plans to Protect Data › How to Create a File Archive Plan

How to Create a File Archive Plan

Using Arcserve UDP, you can archive selected source files to a destination. The destination can be a cloud account or a shared network. The source file must be from the same volume that you have already backed up. For example, you have backed up the entire D:\ volume of your source node. Now you want to copy a specific type of file (for example, .htm) from the D:\ volume of the source node. After you copy the file, you want to delete that file from the source node. You can create a file archive plan to perform this operation.

File Archive 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 archiving files are:

• Improve Efficiency - Helps you to speed backup and recovery processes by archiving 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.

What To Do Next?

• Review the Prerequisites
• Create a Plan with a Backup Task
• Add a File Archive Task to the Plan
• Verify the Plan