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Veeam Backup Free Edition 9.5
User Guide

Advanced Settings

At the Advanced tab, you can  enable hardware compression or specify custom scripts that you want to run before and/or after the file to tape job.

At the Options step of the wizard, click Advanced. Select the Advanced tab.

  1. Select the Use hardware compression if available check box if the tape drive should compress data before writing it to tape.

Advanced Settings Important!

Enable the hardware compression only if your tape library provides support for hardware compression.

  1. Select the Run the following script before the job and/or Run the following script after the job check boxes and click Browse to choose executable file(s). You can select to execute pre- and post-job actions after a number of job sessions or on specific week days.
  • If you select the Run every... backup session option, specify the number of the job sessions after which the script(s) must be executed.
  • If you select the Run on selected days only option, click Days and specify week days on which the script(s) must be executed.

Advanced Settings 

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