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Initial seeding enables you to transfer the first backup, which is full and usually the largest, to the
online storage on a hard drive instead of over the Internet. Subsequent backups, which are all
incremental and thus usually much smaller, can be transferred over the Internet after the full backup
has arrived in the online storage.
If you back up a large amount of data, initial seeding ensures faster delivery of the backed-up data
and lower traffic costs.
Please refer to the "Initial Seeding FAQ (p. 394)" section for more details.
6.2.12 Archive validation
Set up the validation task to check if the backed up data is recoverable. If the backup could not pass
the validation successfully, the validation task fails and the backup plan gets the Error status.
To set up validation, specify the following parameters
1. When to validate – select when to perform the validation. As the validation is a resource-
intensive operation, it makes sense to schedule the validation to the managed machine's off-
peak period. On the other hand, if the validation is a major part of your data protection strategy
and you prefer to be immediately informed whether the backed up data is not corrupted and can
be successfully recovered, think of starting the validation right after backup creation.
2. What to validate – select either to validate the entire archive or the latest backup in the archive.
Validation of a file backup imitates recovery of all files from the backup to a dummy destination.
Validation of a volume backup calculates a checksum for every data block saved in the backup.
Validation of the archive will validate all the archive’s backups and may take a long time and a lot
of system resources.
3. Validation schedule (appears only if you have selected the on schedule in step 1) - set the
schedule of validation. For more information see the Scheduling (p. 173) section.
6.2.13 Setting up regular conversion to a virtual machine
When creating a backup plan (p. 204), you can set up regular conversion of a disk or volume backup
to a virtual machine. This section provides information that helps you make the appropriate settings.
6.2.13.1 Setting up a conversion schedule
A disk backup (p. 416) created while executing a backup plan can be converted to a virtual machine
immediately or on schedule or you can combine both methods.
The conversion task will be created on the machine being backed up, and will use this machine's date
and time.
As a result of the first conversion, a new virtual machine will be created. Every subsequent
conversion will re-create this machine from scratch. First, a new (temporary) virtual machine is
created. If this operation succeeds, the old machine is replaced. If an error occurs during creation of
the temporary machine, the temporary machine is deleted. This way, the task always ends up with
the single machine, but extra storage space is required during conversion to keep the temporary
machine.
The old virtual machine must be powered off by the time of conversion, otherwise it will not be
possible to delete it and the conversion task will fail. If this happens, you can restart the conversion