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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:

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