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Global Options for the Merge Utility

CA ARCserve Backup provides several types of global merge options. Use the Merge utility option when you want to restore detailed session information in your CA ARCserve Backup database.

For example, if a backup was created using CA ARCserve Backup on a different server, you can use Merge to get the media information into the database in the CA ARCserve Backup home directory. This will allow you to restore media backed up from another server at the file level. This can be useful if detailed information has been pruned from the database. By default, detailed job information is pruned 30 days after the backup to conserve database space. This can be configured in the Server Admin Manager.

Note: By default, all newly merged session details are preserved for one week (7 days) in the CA ARCserve Backup database, even if the newly merged session details are older than the prune retention time.

The available global merge options are listed below:

• Backup Media-Specify media options for the job such as the media timeout period
• Pre/Post-Run commands or batch files before the job runs and/or after it finishes
• Job Log-Enables you to determine the level of detail you want recorded into the Job Queue Log
• Database-Specify whether you want to record detailed information about the jobs, or job and session-level details only.
• Alert-Send messages about events in your operation

See Job Options to learn how to apply these options to your job.

More information:

Merge Media

Merge Utility

Merge Utility Options