In the Run Now interface, the Basic tab and Advanced tab are available for configuring backup job settings Refer to the section below for details on the Basic tab:
Backup Type – Select the type of the backup job you want to run on the selected plan.
You can select Full Backup, Incremental Backup, or Differential Backup from the drop-down list. Refer to Overview of Backup Types for additional information.
*Note: DocAve performs a Full backup when running any Platform backup plan for the first time, regardless of the backup plan chosen. An initial Full backup is mandatory for all plans.
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*Note: The VMs hosted by ESX/ESXi or vCenter support the Full Backup, Incremental Backup, and Differential Backup, but the VMs hosted by Hyper-V only support Full Backup. If the backup type of the backup job is set to Incremental Backup or Differential Backup, you can choose if to perform a full backup on the Hyper-V hosted VMs or skip backing up the Hyper-V VMs in the Back up Hyper-V VMs field.
Restore Granularity Level – Select the granular index level for index generation in the backup job. You can select Site Collection Level, Site Level, Folder Level, Item Level, Item Version Level, and None as the granular restore index level.
Verify Database Backup Data– Choose whether or not to verify the database backup data after a backup job has finished.
Check Agent Account Permissions for Backup – Choose whether or not to check the Agent Account permissions for backup in the Platform Backup job. Select Yes to check the Agent account permissions in the backup job. If you are sure that your Agent Account has the required permissions for using Platform Backup and Restore, select No to skip this process. Skipping this process may result in faster job times. If the job fails because of insufficient permissions for the Agent account, the backup job report will show the details.
Job Report – Select the level of reporting for the backup job. Simplified creates a summary of the backup data. Detailed creates a full list of all backup objects at the cost of performance. If you select Storage Manager or Connector BLOB data, the BLOB Details tab will be shown in the Job Monitor Job Details interface.
Would you like to remember these settings for future plans? – Select Yes, remember these settings to remember these settings for the future usage when the current user performs any backup jobs. Otherwise, select No, I will configure these settings again the next time I run a plan.
Refer to the section below for details of the settings on the Advanced tab:
Data Transfer Options – Specify whether or not to transfer the backup data from snapshot to media server or defer the data transfer. This field is only available when Create Persistent Snapshot is set to Yes.
Transfer data from persistent snapshot to backup data storage – Transfers the snapshot data immediately from the hardware to the corresponding storage device after the snapshot is complete. If this option is unchecked, no backup data is written to the storage device.
*Note: If no persistent snapshot is created during the backup job, the snapshot data is always copied to the corresponding logical device regardless of whether this option is selected or not.
Defer transferring data from persistent snapshot to backup data storage – The snapshot data is not transferred to the storage device during the backup job. If you select this option, the snapshot data is transferred to the corresponding
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Only use snapshot for backup data – Does not transfer the snapshot data to the media server.
Generate Granular Index – Choose whether or not to generate the granular index in the backup job. Defer generating the granular index will postpone the index generation until the time configured in the Maintenance schedule.
Back up Web Front-End Servers in Parallel – Choose whether or not to back up the Web front-end servers in parallel. Selecting the Back up Web Front-End servers in parallel option requires you to enter in the text box the number of Web front-end servers that you want to back up in parallel.
*Note: Backing up too many Web front-end servers in parallel can overload the Media Service.
*Note: The following recommendations assume that your network bandwidth is 60 MB/S:
If the content under the Extra File System Folder node exceeds 1 GB, 3 or 4 is a recommended maximum number.
If your content under the Extra File System Folder node does not exceed 1 GB, the maximum number can be larger because the average backup rate is less than 1 MB/s.
Granular Index Method – Choose the way to generate index. Sequential will generate the index for the databases one by one. Parallel will generate the index for the databases simultaneously.
Run Command With Operation – Select a command profile from the drop-down list to execute before or after the snapshot creation in the backup job. If you do not select the Create Persistent Snapshots option, this field will not be available to configure.
Back up Stub Database for Selected Scope – Choose whether or not to back up the stub database along with the contents you have selected to back up.
Back up BLOB for Selected Scope – Choose whether or not to back up the BLOB content generated by Storage Manager and the files in the connected path of Connector. Select the corresponding checkboxes if you wish to back up the BLOB data. The BLOB data will be backed up in parallel. The Connector BLOB will be backed before the Storage
Manager BLOB. By default, at most five Connector BLOBs or Storage Manager BLOBs will be backed up at the same time. You can navigate to the
…\AvePoint\DocAve6\Agent\data\SP2010\Platform\SP2010PlatformConfiguration.xml directory to configure the maximum amount of BLOB data to back up in parallel. For more information, refer to Defining the Maximum Number of BLOB Backups Running in Parallel.
*Note: The default value is set to 5, which means there will be at most five BLOB backups running in parallel.
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*Note: The BLOB data in NFS storage cannot be backed up or restored using Platform Backup and Restore.
*Note: If you want to back up the BLOB data generated through the Leave a stub in SharePoint for each document (uses Storage Manager) feature of Archiver, select Back up Storage Manager BLOB option. In the same way, if you have BLOB data generated through Archiver in the backup scope, selecting Back up Storage Manager BLOB option will also back up the Archiver BLOB data together with the Storage Manager BLOB data during the backup job.
*Note: If you want to back up BLOB data from the file share using VSS, the File Server VSS Agent Service must be enabled on the file server.
Job Time Limit ─ Select whether or not to define a time limit for the running time of this backup job.
No time limit ─ No matter how long this backup job will cost, DocAve will not stop this job automatically.
Stop after _ (Minutes, Hours or Days) ─ DocAve will automatically stop this backup job after its running time exceeds the entered time limit.
Would you like to remember these settings for future plans? – Select Yes, remember these settings to remember these settings for the future usage when the current user performs any backup jobs. Otherwise, select No, I will configure these settings again the next time I run a plan.
Click Ok to run a platform backup job immediately based on the plan, click Cancel to return to the Plan Manager interface without running the platform backup job.