Optimize Master Generation
This feature allows you to try to reduce space occupied by Master generations.
To optimize an entire backup set:
1. From the Customer Tree, browse and highlight the backup set.
2. Right-click, and select "Run Master/Delta Optimize". The Master/Delta Optimization process starts immediately.
- By default, the DS-System will try to optimize the backup set's Master files at the block-level (it may achieve slightly better de-duplication than the DS-Client). It will also convert back-to-back Masters into the Master-Delta chain (where appropriate).
- Additional optimization depends on the setting of the 'FixDeltaChain' parameter in the Advanced Configurations. This will convert a Delta generation into a Master when the DS-System detects the delta chain is too long (See "DS-System Advanced Configuration".)
To optimize at the individual backup file-level:
1. Follow the steps in the section "View Directory and File Information", until you reach the Storage Info for screen.
2. In the Storage Info for screen, highlight the Master generation you want to optimize (only one Master can be optimized at a time).
- F1 Help: See "Storage Info for: [...]".
- DS-System will try to optimize the Master at the block-level (it may achieve slightly better de-duplication than the DS-Client).
- If the preceding generation is also a Master, DS-System will convert the Master you are optimizing into a Delta that depends on it.
4. Click Refresh to update the screen.
- F1 Help: See "Storage Info for: [...]".
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