The settings described in this section relate to single-pass backup. These settings are grouped in the Single-pass disk and application backup section of the Create backup plan or Back up now page.
Single-pass backup
This setting enables single-pass disk and application backup.
To access the following settings, click Show task failure handling, log truncation.
Error handling
The Ignore application backup errors and continue the task check box determines the software behavior when it fails to collect application metadata during a backup. For example, this happens if a database is corrupted, or the application service is stopped, or using VSS is disabled in the backup options, or the account under which the backup runs does not have permissions to access a database.
By default, Acronis Backup fails the backup.
If you select the check box, the backup will continue. The event log will contain an entry about each of the databases for which the metadata is not collected. If no metadata is collected at all, you will obtain an ordinary disk-level backup.
The following setting is available only if Agent for SQL is installed on the machine.
Log truncation
If the setting is enabled, the Microsoft SQL Server log will be truncated after each full, incremental or differential backup. The truncation occurs only if the single-pass backup was successful.
Leave the setting disabled if you use a third-party application, such as the SQL Server backup and restore component, for backing up the SQL Server data.
Log truncation and ignoring application errors are mutually exclusive. This prevents truncating the Microsoft SQL log if the application metadata is not collected.