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Resulting tasks

Any custom scheme always produces three backup tasks and—in case the retention rules are

specified—a cleanup task. Each task is listed in the list of tasks either as Scheduled (if the schedule

has been set up) or as Manual (if the schedule has not been set up).

You can manually run any backup task or cleanup task at any time, regardless of whether it has a

schedule.

In the first of the previous examples, we set up a schedule only for full backups. However, the

scheme will still result in three backup tasks, enabling you to manually start a backup of any type:

 Full backup, runs every Friday at 10:00 PM

 Incremental backup, runs manually

 Differential backup, runs manually

You can run any of these backup tasks by selecting it from the list of tasks in the Backup plans and

tasks section in the left pane.

If you have also specified the retention rules in your backup scheme, the scheme will result in four

tasks: three backup tasks and one cleanup task.

7.3.7.7 Initial seeding

This backup scheme is only available when you have an Initial Seeding license and selected the Online

Backup Storage as the backup destination.

Initial seeding enables you to transfer the first backup, which is full and usually the largest, to the

online storage on a hard drive instead of over the Internet. Subsequent backups, which are all

incremental and thus usually much smaller, can be transferred over the Internet after the full backup

has arrived in the online storage.

If you back up a large amount of data, initial seeding ensures faster delivery of the backed-up data

and lower traffic costs.

Please refer to the "Initial Seeding FAQ (p. 372)" section for more details.

7.3.8 Archive validation

Set up the validation task to check if the backed up data is recoverable. If the backup could not pass

the validation successfully, the validation task fails and the backup plan gets the Error status.

To set up validation, specify the following parameters

1. When to validate – select when to perform the validation. As the validation is a resource-

intensive operation, it makes sense to schedule the validation to the managed machine's off-

peak period. On the other hand, if the validation is a major part of your data protection strategy

and you prefer to be immediately informed whether the backed up data is not corrupted and can

be successfully recovered, think of starting the validation right after backup creation.

2. What to validate – select either to validate the entire archive or the latest backup in the archive.

Validation of a file backup imitates recovery of all files from the backup to a dummy destination.

Validation of a volume backup calculates a checksum for every data block saved in the backup.

Validation of the archive will validate all the archive’s backups and may take a long time and a lot

of system resources.

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