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of this deleted VM will become subject to deletion. Accordingly, the Never delete the last remaining

backup check box will prevent or force the deletion of the last remaining backup.

7.4.3 Other settings

Click More options to open the pop-up with the additional settings. These options are described in

the "Options" section (p. 36).

7.4.4 Backup validation

If you would like to check the newly created backup for consistency (perform the backup validation),

select the Validate after backup check box (for further information on Backup validation, please refer

to section "Validating backups" (p. 85)).

7.4.5 Completing the Create backup task wizard

To complete the New backup task wizard, you should define the task name. Note that [ ] { } ; , .

symbols are not allowed for the task name.

When you click on the Save button, all the parameters of your set up backup task will be saved and

you will see the created task in the Tasks view. Clicking on the Save & Run button will result in saving

the task and running it right away.

7.5 Options

Clicking on the More options in the last step of the New Backup Task wizard opens up a pop-up with

the settings. If no changes were made to the settings, they will retain their respective default values

for your current backup task. Note that if later on you change certain settings and save them as

default, it will not affect the tasks created with the default settings (they will retain the settings

which were default at the moment of the task creation).

This section below describes all the settings one by one.

7.5.1 Archive Protection

The default value for the Archive protection parameter is “Disabled”. This option is not available

when editing the existing task or when creating a new task specifying the existing archive.

In order to protect your archive from unauthorized access, select the Set password for the archive

check box, then type your password in the Enter the password field; and, finally re-type it in the

Confirm the password field. Note that the password is case-sensitive.

The created archive can be protected either with just a password or enhanced with the Advanced

Encryption Standard (AES) 128/192/256-bit key encryption algorithm. Iа you select Do not encrypt,

your archive will be protected with the password only. If you would like to use the encryption, select

one of the following: AES 128, AES 192 or AES 256.