Advanced Backup Set Options
When the Administrator's Override password has been entered, Advanced Backup Set Options appear at the bottom of the Schedule screen. These options control File Retention Policy, Version Control, post-session actions, scheduler method, compression level and file selection method.
To view the Advanced Backup Set Options, selectOptions:Preferences:Connection
Double-click the little padlock icon.
Enter the default password: Admin (This is case-sensitive.) This password can be changed when you configure your Client installer using the Customize Client Installer feature, so your clients will not have access to this screen unless you give them this password.
Then click OK to close the screen. (Don't click Apply.)
The main Remote Backup screen should re-appear.
Now select the Schedule menu item. You should see several new fields at the bottom of the screen.
You can set the Client computer to either log off the current user or shut down the computer at the end of the backup session.
Select this checkbox to use the Windows Task Scheduler to launch this backup set instead of using RBackup's built-in scheduler. Some applications have the potential to interfere with RBackup's built-in scheduler, especially when RBackup is running in Service Mode. It is generally considered more reliable for wide-scale distributions to use the Windows Task Scheduler.
The Version Control System keeps multiple copies of your clients' files on your Server. RBS NEVER over-writes a file. If a client wants to restore a file from two weeks ago, he can, back to a specific date - as long as you still have that data on your Server.
You can set your software to rotate files. It can erase the oldest backup files by the length of time they have been on your Server. So, if you like, you can set the system to delete all files that are 30 days old (as an example). This would mean that the Client software would automatically erase data as it hit 31 days old and the latest session is written to the disk, effectively keeping the most current 30 days of data online. (or 14 days, or 60 days - whatever) Or, you can turn this feature off and keep all data.
The powerful Restore features can rebuild (in real-time at the time of restore) a full file set containing all the latest versions of files from multiple backup sets for Full, Incremental, Differential, and BitBackup backups.
You can also have the software set to keep files of which it has only one copy, regardless of how old it is. So, files of which you only have one backup copy are never erased.
These features can be set individually client-by-client and can be set differently for each Backup Set.
Select this checkbox to automatically delete files from the Server at the end of their retention period if they are deleted from the Client or if they are deselected (unmarked) by the Client.
Check this setting if you want to keep the most recent version of a file regardless the other settings on this screen. For example, assume you have set Purge Files older than: to 30 days. If you only have a single copy of a file within that time frame, and you do not checkmark this option, that file will be erased when its age is over 30 days. If you checkmark this option, that file will be retained regardless of its age until a more recent one appears at your RBS Server.
Use this setting to set the retention period of the files in this Backup Set to a number of days. In this example, files will be retained for 30 days and then erased from the RBS Server.
This setting is used to specify the most data that can be sent in a single session. This defaults to "Unlimited." If a Backup Set is too big to be completed in the time frame set up for it, the files that can't be sent will be sent during the next backup session.
This setting is mutually exclusive of the Purge Files older than setting. You can only use one or the other, not both. Setting Purge Files older than to zero turns this setting on. Using this setting, the file retention period is not determined by date, but by the number of backups sets on the RBS Server.
The Compression Level is usually set to "Medium" but can be set to a range of levels. There is usually no benefit in changing it from "Medium."
This sets the way RBackup selects files for backup. If set to Archive Bit, RBackup will select files that have changed since the last backup, according to the archive setting for the file. This is a very fast way to select files. However, if another program resets the archive bit before the backup, the file might not be selected for backup.
Setting File Selection to Modified Date/Time has two advantages and one disadvantage: It can select files for backup regardless of the archive bit, so it's generally more reliable; and it will always do a first full backup, then automatically switch to Incremental Mode (a very handy feature). Its disadvantage is that during a backup session the file selection process is slower than using the archive bit - sometimes quite a bit slower. This might not matter, however, if backups are done at night when nobody is using the computer.