Step 4. Advanced Options
Configure Advanced Options for the backup plan. Set the VSS provider usage.
VSS provider is a Windows component that creates and maintains shadow copies. This can occur in the software or the hardware. Windows operating system includes a VSS provider that uses copy-on-write
Select the Use system VSS provider check box to enable the system the VSS provider.
Click Next to proceed to the Compression and Encryption Options step.
Additional Advanced Options for Amazon S3
If your backup storage destination is Amazon S3, select the S3 storage class for the backup plan:
- Standard
- Intelligent-Tiering
- Standard-IA
- One Zone-IA
- Glacier Instant Retrieval
- Glacier Flexible Retrieval (formerly S3 Glacier)
- Glacier Deep Archive
Usage of different storage classes for different backups is the subject of optimizing your storage costs.
Learn more about Amazon S3 storage classes here
Additional Advanced Options for Microsoft Azure
If your backup storage destination is Microsoft Azure, and you have the General Purpose v2 Azure account, select the required storage class (access tier).
The following options are available:
- Hot tier. An online tier optimized for storing data that is accessed or modified frequently. The hot tier has the highest storage costs, but the lowest access costs.
- Cool tier. An online tier optimized for storing data that is infrequently accessed or modified. Data in the cool tier should be stored for a minimum of 30 days. The cool tier has lower storage costs and higher access costs compared to the hot tier.
- Cold tier.An online tier optimized for storing data that is rarely accessed or modified, but still requires fast retrieval. Data in the cold tier should be stored for a minimum of 90 days. The cold tier has lower storage costs and higher access costs compared to the cool tier.
- Archive tier. An offline tier optimized for storing data that is rarely accessed, and that has flexible latency requirements, on the order of hours. Data in the archive tier should be stored for a minimum of 180 days.
Note that this feature is only supported for General Purpose v2 Azure accounts. If you are using another kind of account, you need to upgrade your account to be able to use this feature
Be aware of the additional charges and increased blob access rates after your Azure account upgrade
To learn more about the difference between Azure storage tiers, refer to the Azure Blob Storage - Hot, cool,cold, and archive storage tiers article at docs.microsoft.com.