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- To edit default settings from the main toolbar click the 'Cog' icon as shown below.
- Select the area you want to amend.
- When you are happy with your selections click OK.
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These options set the defaults for a new backup. |
- Three levels of compression can be chosen, the higher the compression level the smaller the backup file will be:
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Incremental Retention Rules will not be run if backup files are split. This can be caused by setting a fixed size or if the destination file system is FAT32. |
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- With the Password option turned on all the images created will require a password before they can be browsed or restored.
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This can add a significant amount of time to the backup process. |
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- Reflect will automatically verify the integrity of the file system being backed up.
For FAT32 and NTFS this means checking that all files and folders have their data entries correctly mapped to the file allocation table (FAT) or MFT Bitmap (NTFS).
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| Highest | Your backup will take less time to complete and may slow down other applications. |
| Lowest | Your backup may take longer to complete but it will have less effect on other running applications. |
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Log file purge option enables you to manage the retention of your backup logs.
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| Remove log files | Choose number of days of weeks |
| Move to Recycle Bin | Deleted logs will be moved to the Recycle Bin. |
| Perform at startup | Logs will be deleted when Reflect starts up. |
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| Perform a Forensic Sector Copy | Backup every sector.
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- Reparse points are a feature of the NTFS file system that provides the ability to create a link to a directories which then fictions as an alias of that directory.
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Backup Set Matching options sets rules for retention that is going to be applied to your backup sets.
- The options below define the logic used for appending to an existing backup set and how retention rules are applied when selecting 'Apply retention rules to matching backup sets in the target folder' in the backup wizard.
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| Shutdown | This will Shutdown your computer after the backup is complete.
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| Hibernate | This will Hibernate your computer after the backup is complete | ||
| Suspend | This will put your computer to Sleep after the backup is complete. |
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Enabling Rapid Delta Restore decreases the time it will take to restore a backup. Only NTFS file systems that are not shrunk can be restored this way. |
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These options set the defaults for a restore. |
- When a partition is restored, Reflect can flag all unused blocks using the TRIM operation.
Writing to an unused block is much quicker than an in-use block as it avoids both the slow erase operation and the read-modify-write cycle. This results an increase of both the lifetime and the performance of the device.
It is effective for all Windows operating systems, even those that support SSD trim as the file system driver can only TRIM blocks on de-allocation; it cannot TRIM blocks written by another process. It is also effective for USB attached SSDs.
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| No Thank You | Reflect will not verify your images before the Restore process. |
| Yes Please | Reflect will verify your images before the Restore process. |
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- Master Boot Record is a small program that executes when the computer starts up. If this program has become corrupt, perhaps due to a virus, then you may have problems starting the computers operating system.
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Update options establish rules for updating Reflect.
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| Enable automatic check for updates | Chose when Reflect checks for updates.
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| Disable automatic update check | Reflect will not check for updates automatically; updates will need to be manually checked for by using the update button. |
| Automatically restart Reflect after patching | Reflect will automatically restart once the update has been downloaded and installed. |
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| Username | Enter the Username that will authenticate your scheduled jobs; if on a domain enter the convention of 'domain\username' |
| Password | Enter the Password for the user entered above. |
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Time Out options are set to establish time out for scheduled tasks, for example, if you needed to format a DVD.
- Scheduled tasks and backups that run by passing an XML file as a parameter to Reflect, should be run without any user interaction.
However, if interaction is required to continue such as formatting a DVD or selecting a new destination, then a time out can be applied to cancel the operation if a response isn't mate in time.
This enabled tasks to complete without a user logged on to Windows. Disabling this facility can cause Reflect to wait for input indefinitely, if no user is logged on.
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Scripts
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- Enabling Delta indexes will reduce incremental file size and can increase the speed of merging Incremental backups during Synthetic Full and Incremental consolidation.
Additionally, all previous files in the backup set, up to the previous Diff or Full, are required to continue to append to the set.
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If this option enabled then the image Index for each incremental is calculated when the file is opened. This may increase the time required to mount an Incremental backup in Windows Explorer. |
For information on Changed Block Tracker please see here
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