About System Preferences Templates

Under the System Preferences tab, you can configure the following options:

• Concurrent Workers

• File Retries

• Wildcard Exclusions

• Stray File Retention

Descriptions of these options are provided below. 

 Applying a preferences template requires the backup agent to be connected and may take up to 15 minutes during which a pending message is displayed on the Computer section of the Manage Account page.

An example of the System Preferences template is displayed below.

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This option allows you to determine how many files and VMs the software can back up, restore, or delete at the same time. Increasing this value may improve the performance of these operations but may consume more resources on the computer.

The Performance workers option is for Physical Imaging Standard Only.

Performance workers directly correlate to how much of the system resources are used for the backup or restore action. The higher the worker count, the more CPU and memory will be utilized, and the quicker the action should complete. The number of workers used can be set between 1 and the number of cores the system has.

This option allows you to determine how often a file can be retried if it fails to back up.

This option allows you to set wildcat exclusions to add to each computer’s exclusion list. Each phrase must be separated by a comma and committed by pressing Enter.

This option allows you to set the following retention rules:

• Automatically remove stray files after a set number of days.

• Skip file removal if the volume or the share is not found.