Options tab

NAVIGATION  Cloud Backup > Configuration > Profiles > Options tab

Backup Options

  • Compression Level - None, Normal, High, Maximum.
  • Validate Backup - If checked, validates a backup by calculating a checksum for every data block that can be recovered from the backup. The only exception is validation of file-level backups that are located in the cloud storage. These backups are validated by checking consistency of the metadata saved in the backup.
  • Use Change Block Tracking - Applies when performing an incremental or differential backup. If enabled, changes to disk content are continuously tracked at the block level. When a backup starts, changes are immediately saved to the backup.
  • Use fast incremental/differential backup - If enabled, uses the file size and modification date/time to determine if the file has changed. If disabled compare's the entire file with the previous backup of the file to determine if the file has changed.
  • Sector by Sector - Stores all disk sectors with the backup.
  • Write Windows Event Log - If checked, log events of the backup operations in the Application event log of Windows

Backup Scheduling Distribution

  • Distribute backup start times within a window - Delays the backups of physical machines from the scheduled time by a random value up to the Max Delay value specified.
  • Max Delay <N> <periods>

Error Handling

  • Reattempt if error occurs - If checked, attempts to re-execute after an error.
  • Number of attempts<N> - The number of reattempts to make.
  • Interval between attempts<N><periods>- The number of periods to wait between attempts.
  • Silent Mode - If checked, user interactions are suppressed when creating the backup, except for handling bad sectors, which is defined using the Ignore Bad Sectors option.
  • Ignore Bad Sectors - If checked, user interactions are suppressed for bad sectors when creating the backup.

Task Failure Handling

  • Restart a failed task - If checked, attempts to re-execute a task after a failure.
  • Number of attempts<N> - The number of reattempts to make.
  • Interval between attempts<N><periods>- The number of periods to wait between attempts.

Performance

  • Backup process priority - Low, Normal, High. The priority of the backup process in the operating system.
  • Limit agent output speed during backup - Limits the hard drive writing speed, when backing up to a local folder, or the speed of transferring the backup data through the network, when backing up to a network share or to cloud storage.
  • No more than (KB/s) - The maximum allowed output speed.

Volume Shadow Copy Service

  • Use VSS when taking snapshots - If checked, transactions of all VSS-aware applications running in a virtual machine are completed before taking the snapshot.
  • Use Microsoft VSS Provider (unselect to automatically choose among providers) - Applies to Windows only. If checked, VSS-aware applications are notified that a backup is about to start. Enabled is recommended when backing up application servers (Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, or Active Directory). If unchecked, shadow copy providers are automatically selected from hardware snapshot providers, software snapshot providers, and Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider. Recommended if your virtual machine is incompatible with Microsoft VSS.
  • Enable VSS full backup - If checked, logs of Microsoft Exchange Server and of other VSS-aware applications, except for Mirosoft SQL Server, are truncated after each successful full, incremental or differential disk-level backup.