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Specify File Copy Destinations

CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager lets you specify the destination settings for your information to be file copied.

To specify file copy destinations

1. From the CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager home page, click Policies on the Navigation bar.

   The Policies screen opens.

2. Click New to create a new policy.

   The New Policy dialog opens.

3. Select the File Copy Settings tab and then select Destination to open the File Copy Settings Destination dialog.
4. Specify your destination settings.
   • Destination--Specifies the destination location for the file copy job. You can only select one destination.

     CA ARCserve D2D lets you specify the settings for file copying your backed up files to a disk or to the cloud. For file copying, you can specify to perform a copy and retain or a copy and move of your backed up data. The two processes are similar, with the exception that when you perform a copy and move, the data is moved from the source to the destination (deleted from source location) and provides more available free space at your source. When you perform a copy and retain, the data is copied from the source to the destination (remains on source destination) and provides multiple stored versions.

     • File Copy to a local or network drive--When selected, lets you specify the full path of the location where you want to move or copy the source files/folders. You can browse to this destination location. Clicking the green arrow icon lets you validate the connection to the specified destination.
     • File Copy to Cloud--When selected, lets you specify the cloud location where you want to move or copy the source files/folders. CA ARCserve D2D currently supports file copying to multiple cloud vendors, such as Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Windows Azure, Fujitsu Cloud (Windows Azure), and Eucalyptus-Walrus. These cloud vendors are publicly available web services that let you safely and securely store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.

       You can click the Configure button to display the Cloud Configuration dialog. For more information, see Specify Cloud Configuration Details for File Copy.

       Note: To eliminate any potential clock skew error when attempting to connect to the cloud, verify that your machine has the correct time zone set and the clock is in sync with the global time. You should always check the time of your machine against the GMT time. If the time of your machine is not synchronized with the correct global clock time (within 5 to 10 minutes), Amazon S3 will not work. If necessary, reset the correct time for your machine and rerun your archive job.

     For either destination option, if the connection to the specified destination is lost or broken, CA ARCserve D2D makes several attempts to continue the file copy job. If these reattempts are not successful, a makeup job is performed from the point where the failure occurred. In addition, the activity log is updated with a corresponding error message and an email notification is sent (if configured).

   • Compression--Specifies the type of compression to be used for File Copy jobs.

     Compression is usually performed to decrease your storage space but also has an inverse impact on your file copy speed due to the increased CPU usage.

     The available options are:

     • No Compression--No compression will be performed. This option has the lowest CPU usage (fastest speed), but also has the largest storage space requirement for your file copy.
     • Standard Compression--Some compression will be performed. This option provides a good balance between CPU usage and storage space requirement. This is the default setting.
     • Maximum Compression--Maximum compression will be performed. This option provides the highest CPU usage (lowest speed), but also has the lowest storage space requirement for your file copy.
   • Encryption--Lets you enable your encryption password for file copying.
   • Retention Time--This setting only applies to file copied data that is moved (not file copy data that is retained).

     Specifies the amount of time (years, months, weeks, days) that the stored data is retained at the destination location. At the end of the specified retention time period, the stored data is purged from the destination.

     The retention time calculations are based upon a month being 30 days and a year being 365 days. For example: If you specify a retention time of 2 years, 2 months, and 5 days, then the total retention time for your file copied data will be 795 days (365 + 365 + 30 + 30 + 5).

     Important! Because this retention time setting only applies to data that has been copied and moved from the source to the destination (and not copied and retained), it is important to understand that at the end of the specified retention time when the data is purged from the destination, all of this moved data will no longer be stored or saved.

   • File Versions--This setting applies only to copied data that is retained (not copied data that is moved).

     Specifies the number of copies retained and stored at the destination location (cloud or disk). After this number is exceeded, the earliest (oldest) version will be discarded. This cycle of discarding the oldest stored version will repeat as newer versions are added to the destination, allowing you to always maintain the specified number of stored versions.

     For example, if your specified File Versions retention count is set to 5 and you perform five file copies at a time: t1, t2, t3, t4, and t5, these file copies become the five file copy versions retained and available to recover. After the 6th file copy is performed (new version is saved), CA ARCserve D2D will remove the t1 copy and the five available versions to recover are now t2, t3, t4, t5, and t6.

     By default, the number of copies retained at the destination location before discarding is 15.

5. Click Save Settings.

The file copy destination settings are saved.