If you have a lot of data (e.g. 300GB) to backup to the Data Guardian Backup Server, it would take a considerable amount of time to perform the first full backup through the Internet. If you run into this problem, you can use the Seed Loading Utility to backup your backup set to local hard disk (instead of directly to the backup server) and then transport the encrypted backup data, using a removable hard disk, to Security Confidence. Security Confidence can then load all your backup files from your removable hard disk into your backup account. This could then save you days (even weeks) of performing your first full backup. Since subsequent backup will be incremental backup (only new or updated files will be uploaded to the server) you should have no problems uploading your backup data afterwards.
To perform seeding loading, please do the following: - Open Data Guardian Premier from the System Tray (see previous sections for details)
- Setup your backup set
- Select the backup set you want to run on the left panel and press the [Start Backup] button (►) on the toolbar
- Select [Local Hard Disk (Seed Load Utility)] to start backing up your files to local hard disk and press the [OK] button
- Enter a directory where you want all backup files to be stored in the [Destination Directory] field and press the [Start] button. Please make sure you have enough free space in the directory specified. Please ensure the [Destination Directory] is a folder on the removable hard disk.
- You should get the message “Backup Completed Successfully” as shown below after all backup files are spooled to the directory you specified.
- Transport the data specified in the [Destination Directory] field to the offsite backup server
*Important Notes: Security Confidence supports most file systems including NTFS, FAT, ext3, XFS, and many others. Please contact us to ensure the file system is supported. Upon loading of your data all existing backup data will be overwritten.
Questions? Please view the Seed Loading chapter of the Data Guardian User Guide, or you may contact us.
