
Backup
Using Backup Options
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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