To schedule a replication for a disk safe, you need to create a policy assigned to this disk safe. You can schedule recurring policies or create one-time policies. The policy starts at the time you have specified in the policy properties. The policy properties include information about how many recovery points to keep in the disk safe.
The data protection policy can include the following details:
- Scheduling. The process of creating a schedule. You can schedule the policy to run at a time that is most convenient for you.
- Recovery point retention rules. The rules that define how many recovery points to keep in the disk safe. SBM merges old recovery points.
- File/folder excludes. User-selected files and folders missed during replication. You can define a file mask or pattern to exclude files.
- Archiving
- SQL, Exchange, MySQL, control panel backup options
Synchronization
Every time a backup job is run, Server Backup Manager performs a synchronization. During the synchronization process, the system creates a point-in-time snapshot of the disk volume and computes deltas based on the last completed synchronization. The deltas are block level and are usually computed at a level below the file system, very close to the raw disk structure. These deltas represent the low-level changes made to the disk volume since the last recovery point.
These changes include:
- Create/Schedule
- Edit
- Enable/Disable
- Run
- Delete
- Access policies — Instructions on how to access and use the Policies window in Server Backup Manager.
- Customize the Policies list — Instructions on how to hide and show columns, sort rows, manage items per page, and filter the Policies list in Server Backup Manager.
- Create policies — Instructions on how to create a new data protection policy and to define its options in Server Backup Manager.
- Edit policies — Instructions on how to change properties of data protection policies in Server Backup Manager.
- Disable policies — Instructions on how to disable data protection policies in Server Backup Manager.
- About exclusions — Information about the file, folder, and virtual machine exclusion process in Server Backup Manager.
- Run policies — Instructions on how to manually run data protection policies in Server Backup Manager.
- Troubleshoot policies — Instructions on how to access policy troubleshooting information in Server Backup Manager.
- Delete policies — Instructions on how to delete data protection policies and their historical data in Server Backup Manager.
- Protect MySQL — General information about protecting MySQL databases in Server Backup Manager.
- Protect SQL Server — General information about work with MS SQL Server database(s) in your Server Backup Manager.
- Protect Exchange — General information about protecting MS Exchange database(s) in your Server Backup Manager.
- Protect Linux home directories — Instructions on how to protect a Linux Home Directories Instance in Server Backup Manager.