User manual
Table Of Contents
- 1 User's Guide
- 1.1 About the backup service
- 1.2 Software requirements
- 1.3 Activating the backup account
- 1.4 Accessing the backup service
- 1.5 Installing the software
- 1.6 Backup console views
- 1.7 Backup
- 1.8 Recovery
- 1.9 Operations with backups and backup plans
- 1.10 Troubleshooting
- 2 Glossary
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SQL databases
Direct selection (p. 16)
Always full (p. 19)
Weekly full, daily
incremental (p. 19)
Custom (F-I) (p. 19)
Exchange databases
Direct selection (p. 16)
Always full (p. 19)
Weekly full, daily
incremental (p. 19)
Custom (F-I) (p. 19)
1.7.2 Selecting data to back up
1.7.2.1 Selecting disks/volumes
A disk-level backup contains a copy of a disk or a volume in a packaged form. You can recover
individual disks, volumes, or files from a disk-level backup. A backup of an entire machine is a backup
of all its disks.
There are two ways of selecting disks/volumes: directly on each machine or by using policy rules. You
can exclude files from a disk backup by setting the file filters (p. 17).
Direct selection
Direct selection is available only for physical machines.
1. In What to back up, select Disks/volumes.
2. Click Items to back up.
3. In Select items for backup, select Directly.
4. For each of the machines included in the backup plan, select the check boxes next to the disks or
volumes to back up.
5. Click Done.
Using policy rules
1. In What to back up, select Disks/volumes.
2. Click Items to back up.
3. In Select items for backup, select Using policy rules.
4. Select any of the predefined rules, type your own rules, or combine both.
The policy rules will be applied to all of the machines included in the backup plan. If no data
meeting at least one of the rules is found on a machine when the backup starts, the backup will
fail on that machine.
5. Click Done.
Rules for Windows, Linux, and OS X
[All volumes] selects all volumes on machines running Windows and all mounted volumes on
machines running Linux or OS X.
Rules for Windows
Drive letter (for example C:\) selects the volume with the specified drive letter.
[Fixed Volumes (Physical machines)] selects all volumes of physical machines, other than
removable media. Fixed volumes include volumes on SCSI, ATAPI, ATA, SSA, SAS, and SATA
devices, and on RAID arrays.
[BOOT+SYSTEM] selects the system and boot volumes. This combination is the minimal set of
data that ensures recovery of the operating system from the backup.