Modifying Backup: An Overview

After you first configure backup for a computer, you can view and modify the Files and Directories configuration and database configurations, create additional database configurations, or delete backup configurations.

As a user for your company account, you can view backup status and details for backup configurations. However, only users assigned the appropriate capability can configure and manage backup.

Initial backup

If you create a new database backup configuration, or change which files get backed up by an existing configuration, the computer will be in an initial backup state again in which only those files which have not been previously backed up by any configuration are backed up in full. This initial backup runs until the first copy of all newly selected data has been replicated to the backup server. The time required for the initial backup depends on the amount of data that you are backing up for the first time and the bandwidth available from your computer.

After this initial backup completes, we will send an e-mail to the computer's primary technical contact notifying the contact of the backup status. At that time, we consider the computer to again be protected. You can then safely perform restores.

Concurrent modifications to a backup configuration

If a backup configuration is modified concurrently through multiple MyLiveVault sessions, the changes committed last will overwrite any previously committed modifications.

What do you want to do?

• Modify a Files and Directories backup configuration, including modifying the files selected for backup, the schedule, the backup type, and whether or not the computer's Windows System State/registry is backed up.

• Modify an Exchange backup configuration, including modifying the files selected for backup for a custom configuration, the schedule, and the backup type.

• Modify a database backup configuration, including modifying the files selected for backup, the schedule, the backup type, and the configuration's name.

• Create a new database backup configuration for another database or application.

• Back up a new volume on a computer that is already being backed up.

• Delete the Files and Directories backup configuration.

• Delete an Exchange backup configuration.

• Delete a database backup configuration.

Related Information

Configuring Your Backup: Guidelines
Configuring Backup
Managing Backup: An Overview
Monitoring Backup: An Overview
Understanding Computer Assignments and User Management Capabilities