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Configuring the agent

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Configuring the agent

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- [Instructor] After you install the backup agent, the very next thing you'll do the first time you use this tool is actually to configure the backup. You do that by selecting the schedule. So here I am in Microsoft Azure Backup Agent Tool. I'm going to go ahead and click on schedule backup and this basically sets what I want to back up, how often do I want to retain it, when do I want to backup the data. So I add this information, just getting started. Wizard gives me a nice reminder of what I'm going to backup. I'm going to go ahead and click on next. It's going to ask what items do you want to backup so I'm going to click on add items. And I'm going to drill into a very important folder that I have on my C drive. How do I know? It's called very important so I'm going to go ahead and select that folder and click okay. And now that tells me I can backup these files. Now with exclusion settings, you can come and it can add…

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