Backup validation option
You can specify the additional validation setting: Validate backup when it is created.
When this option is enabled, the program will check the integrity of the recently created or supplemented backup version immediately after backup. When setting up a backup of critical data or a disk/partition backup, we strongly recommend that you enable this option in order to ensure that the backup can be used to recover the lost data.
Regular validation
You can also schedule validation of your backups to ensure that they remain “healthy”. By default regular validation is turned on with the following settings:
- Frequency: once a month
- Day: the date when the backup was started
- Time: the moment of backup start plus 15 minutes
- Advanced settings: the Run the validation only when the computer is idle check box is selected
Example: You start a backup operation on July 15, at 12.00. The backup version is created at 12.05. Its validation will run at 12.15 if your computer is in the “screen saver” state at the moment. If not, then the validation will not run. In a month, August 15, at 12.15, the validation will start again. As before, your computer must be in the “screen saver” state. The same will occur on September 15, and so on.
You can change the default settings and specify your own schedule. This may be useful if you set a custom backup scheme with incremental backups. For example, you may want to schedule validation of all backup versions (the initial full backup version and subsequent incremental backup versions) once a week.
For more information see Scheduling.