Backup

Using Backup Options

Figure 5-34 Object Properties - General and Disk Image Options

4.Set the options and click OK to confirm the selection. See below for details on a particular option.

Allow Fallback (Windows-Specific Options)

If the Use Shadow Copy option is specified, but the shadow copy creation on the system where the VSS filesystem backup is running fails, the backup also fails by default. However, you can avoid backup failure by specifying the Fallback to legacy option. In this case, the backup will continue as a non-VSS backup.

Backup Files of Size

Use this option to specify the size of backed up files. You can back up All Files (default), Files Bigger Than, Smaller Than, or files within a specified size range in kilobytes.

Backup POSIX Hard Links as Files

This option is only relevant for UNIX filesystems.

A hard link is a directory entry that actually points to a physical file. If this option is not set, Data Protector traverses the directory trees twice. In the first traverse, a table of all hard links that point to the same files

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