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Selection


This page allows you to edit database selection for backup operation.

 

Editing Service task template - Backup Database - Databases

 

 

Backup type

 

Use this parameter to define the backup type:

RadioButton Database - full (a full database backup which backs up the entire database including the transaction log)

RadioButton Database - differential (a differential backup which records only the changes made to the data in the database after the last full database backup)

RadioButton Transaction log (a sequence of log backups provided for a continuous chain of transaction information to support recovery forward from database, differential, or file backups)

 

Set CheckBox Remove inactive entries option on to truncate the live transaction log when you create a backup

Set CheckBox Leave in restoring state on to leave the database in restoring state to be unavailable to users until it is completely restored.

Set CheckBox Copy-only option to create a copy-only backup which is a SQL Server backup that is independent of the sequence of conventional SQL Server backups.

 

Servers

 

Select the servers to run the operation on. If the servers name icon is grayed out the Angel service is not run (installed) or there is no connection to the server.

Note: Selecting servers is not available in Template mode. It is selected on applying the Step Template in Policy.

 

Databases

If SQL Anger provider is used, you can select multiple databases, in case of SQL Server backup only one database can be specified.

 

All

Use this option to select both: system and user databases.

 

All system

This option indicates that only system databases should be backed up.

 

All user

Select this option to back up user databases only.

 

By mask

This option allows defining database selection by mask. Use * for a set of any characters and ? for any single character in the database name.

 

By list

This option allows you to select databases manually.

If you are creating a step template then you can add a database to the list by using the AddItem button or Ins key.

 

Note: The server is selected on applying the Step Template in Policy.

 

When you are editing a step on creating a policy from template then if the database(s) defined on the Selecting database step are missed on the selected server the list of databases will be the following.

 

Editing Service task - Clean mismatches

 

 

Click the Clean Mismatches button to delete the missed databases from the list for the policy cannot be executed for them.