Data Protection properties

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Use property pages to customize your configuration preferences.

The available property pages for a workload vary depending on whether it is configured for the stand-alone environment or the IBM Storage Protect environment.

You can view or edit property pages by selecting a workload from the Protect and Recover Data node in the navigation tree of Microsoft Management Console (MMC), and clicking Properties in the Actions pane.

  • Server Information Use the Server Information property page to obtain information about the server that provides backup services.

  • Server Password

    Use the Server Password property page to change the password for the Data Protection node that you use to access the IBM Storage Protect server. This property page applies only to IBM Storage Protect configurations.

  • Policy Management

    Use the Policy Management property page to add or update a backup policy, which controls how different backup versions are retained on local shadow volumes on stand-alone snapshot configurations.

  • VSS Policy Binding

    Use the VSS Policy Binding property page to bind storage snapshots to back up policies or management classes. VSS policies determine how backups are managed and retained.

  • Managed Capacity

    Use the Managed Capacity property page to track the capacity of managed storage.

  • Diagnostics

    Use the Diagnostics property page to select the type of tracing to run on various components of IBM Storage Protect Snapshot.

  • SQL Login

    Use this property page to set preferences for logging on to the Microsoft SQL Server. This property page is available only for the SQL Server workload.

  • General (SQL Server)

    Use General (SQL) property page to specify general preferences for the SQL Server workload. This property page applies if the product is configured to back up data to stand-alone storage or IBM Storage Protect.

  • General (Exchange Server)

    Use the General (Exchange) property page to specify general preferences for the Exchange Server workload. This property page applies only if your workload is configured to back up data to IBM Storage Protect.

  • Pre/Post Snapshot

    Use this property page to specify presnapshot and postsnapshot commands. This property page applies only to custom applications in the File System workload.

  • Logging

    Use the Logging property page to specify activity log preferences.

  • Regional

    Use the Regional property page to set preferences that affect how languages and information are displayed and logged.

  • VSS Options

    Use the VSS Options property page to configure preferences that are used during VSS backup and restore operations.

  • Capacity Licensing

    Use the Capacity Licensing property page to generate capacity metrics reports for users who are licensed under the front-end or back-end capacity licensing model.

  • Custom Settings

    Use the Custom Settings property page to set your filtering options and control the amount of information that is returned from the server.

  • Performance

    Use this property page to set preferences that affect performance for legacy backups. This property does not apply to Data Protection for Exchange Server.

  • AlwaysOn Node

    All availability databases in an availability group are backed up under this AlwaysOn node.

  • AlwaysOn Preferences

    Use this property page to configure the backup preference settings for scheduled backups of availability groups and availability replicas in an SQL Server 2012 environment.

  • MAPI Settings

    If you use Exchange Server 2013, use the MAPI Settings property page to verify that the user mailbox is online. You can also view and update the MAPI registry key that enables IBM Storage Protect Snapshot to connect to the Exchange Server.