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During the setting process, according to your personal needs, you may need to set the following
options:
Mission Mode:
Sometimes backup jobs may be stopped because of various connection problems with a busy
server on the other end. ASUSTOR's Mission Mode option for external backup allows you to
configure the time interval for connection attempts, ensuring for the successful completion of
your backup job. This also gives IT administrators a significant amount of flexibility when
configuring backup jobs.
Archive mode (incremental backup):
After enabling this feature, successive backup jobs (after your first backup job) will only copy the
data that has changed since your last backup job (block level). For example, if you have made
some small changes to a 10 MB file, incremental backup will only copy the portions that you
have made changes to. This can significantly reduce bandwidth usage.
Support sparse files replication:
You will only need to enable this option when the data that you wish to back up contains sparse
files. Normally, you will not have to enable this option.
Supports symbolic link replication:
You will only need to enable this option when the data that you wish to back up contains
symbolic link files. Normally, you will not have to enable this option.
A symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a term for any file that contains a reference to
another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname
resolution.
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