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Backup Manager

The Backup Manager lets you customize your backup jobs using filters, options, and scheduling. For procedural information on how to submit backup jobs using the Backup Manager, see the online help.

You can use the Backup Manager to:

• Create groups of backup sources.
• Back up to various media or create a customized backup scheme.
• Use filters to selectively exclude or include directories and files from backup jobs.
• Create an automated backup scheme using the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) rotation scheme.
• Apply filters to local source objects (such as volumes and nodes) or globally to the entire backup job, or to both at the same time.

CA ARCserve Backup allows you to back up the Windows registry as well as the system state for Windows systems. Each backup job requires a source and a destination (media). The Backup Manager screen provides tabs to customize your backup job:

• Start--Lets you specify the type of backup: Normal, Deduplication, or UNIX/Linux Data Mover. You may also enable staging for each backup type.
• Source--Lets you specify the data that you want to back up.
• Schedule--Lets you specify a schedule, repeat method, or rotation scheme for the job.
• Destination--Lets you specify the location where you want to store your backup data.

The topics that follow provide full details about the options available on each tab.

Options on the Backup Manager Start Tab

From the Backup Manager Start tab, you can select the backup type.

• Normal backup--Normal backup lets you backup a data source to a target destination, using a custom schedule, repeat method or rotation scheme.

  Note: Use Normal backup when you want to submit a backup job to one data mover server.

• Deduplication backup--Deduplication backup lets you save only unique data chunks to disk, allowing you to fit more backup sessions on media, retain backups for longer periods of time and speed up data recovery. For more information about submitting deduplication backup jobs, see Back Up Data with Deduplication.
• UNIX/Linux Data Mover backup--UNIX/Linux Data Mover backup lets you consolidate multiple Data Movers into a single backup job as long as they share a single library.

For each backup type, you must click the Source, Schedule, and Destination tabs to complete backup job configuration.

You may also Enable Staging. Staging operations allow you to back up data to a staging device and then migrate the backed up data to a final destination (usually a tape). You can choose to Enable Staging on Normal, Deduplication, or Data Mover backup jobs.