User`s guide

Enable the Multi-volume snapshot feature if you are going to back up data located on
multiple volumes and you must preserve its consistency (such as a database spanned
across the volumes). In this case, a single snapshot for all volumes is created, which will
be used for backup creation. When this feature is disabled, snapshots for volumes will be
taken one by one.
5.2.4 Compression level
The preset is Normal.
The data will be copied without any compression, which may significantly increase the
backup file size, if you select None as the compression level. However, if you select
Maximum compression, the backup will take longer to create.
The optimal data compression level depends on the type of files stored in the archive. For
example, even maximum compression will not significantly reduce the archive size if the
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