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110 | Protecting Workstations and Servers
5. In the Protection Schedule dialog box, edit the following schedule options as
needed for protecting your data.
The following table describes the options.
If you want to apply these custom settings to all the volumes on this machine, select
Apply to All Volumes.
6. When you have made all necessary changes, click OK.
Modifying Transfer Settings
In AppAssure 5, you can modify the settings to manage the data transfer processes
for a protected machine. The transfer settings described in this section are agent-
level settings. To affect transfer at the core level, see “Modifying the Transfer Queue
Settings” on page 33.
There are three types of transfers in AppAssure 5:
 Snapshot. Backs up the data on your protected machine. Two types of snapshots
are possible: a base image of all protected data, and an incremental snapshot for
data updated since the last snapshot. This type of transfer creates recovery points,
which are stored on the repository associated with the Core.
Text Box Description
Interval Weekday. To protect data on a specific time interval (for example, every
15 minutes), select the Interval, and then:
To customize when to protect data during peak times, you can select
a Start Time, End Time, and an Interval from the drop-down menus.
To protect data during off-peak times, select the Protection interval
during off-peak times check box, and then select an interval for
protection from the drop-down menu.
Weekends. To protect data during weekends as well, select the
Protection interval during weekends check box, and then select an
interval from the drop-down menu.
NOTE: If the SQL or Exchange databases and logs are on different
volumes, the volumes must belong to one protection group.
Daily To protect data on a daily basis, select the Daily option, and then and in
the Protection Time drop-down menu, select a time to start protecting
data.
No Protection To remove protection from this volume, select the No Protection
option.
Changing transfer settings could have dramatic effects on your AppAssure environment. Before
modifying transfer setting values, refer to the Transfer Performance Tuning Guide in the Dell
AppAssure knowledge base.