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Creating System Preferences Templates

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Note: By leaving a preference setting unselected, the template, when applied, does not overwrite that setting for the computer.

Example: If you create a template that adjusts only the Bandwidth Throttling setting, the other settings are not overwritten by this template.

 

To create a System Preferences template, perform the following steps.

  1. At the ECHOplatform ribbon, click Preferences, Manage Templates as shown below.

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    The Manage Templates page is displayed.

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  2. Click the Preferences tab.
    The Preferences page is displayed.

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  3. Click the Add Template button.
    The System Preferences template is displayed.

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  4. At the Template name, provide a new unique template name. See Creating a New Template Name.
  5. At the Concurrent Workers section, click the check box.
    The fields are enabled.

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  6. Click the up/down arrows to specify how many items are backed up or restored at the same time.

    Increasing the value may improve the performance of these operations but may consume more resources on the computer.


    The following table provides the default settings.

    Item

    Concurrent Workers Default Setting

    Files

    3

    Hyper-V

    3

    VMware

    3

    Mailbox backups

    1

    Performance Workers (Physical Imaging Standard Only)

    3

  7. At the File Retries section, click the check box.
    The fields are enabled.

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  8. Click the up/down arrows to specify how many times a file should be retried if it fails to back up.
    Note : The default setting is 1.
  9. At the Wildcard Exclusions section, click the check box.
    The fields are enabled.

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  10. Set wildcard exclusions to exclude items from the backup sets.
    Note : Separate each phrase with commas. Commit each phrase by pressing Enter .
     An example of committed wildcard exclusions is displayed below.

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  11. At the Stray File Retention section, click the check box.
    The fields are enabled.

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    Definition: Stray files are any backed-up files that have been removed from the local machine or the backup set.
  12. Optionally select the following:
  • Automatically remove stray files after x days.
    Note: The default is 90 days.
  • Skip file removal if volume or share is not found.
  • Always keep the most recent copy of each file.
    Note: The last two options are enabled only when the first item is selected.
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