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17 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5
3.3 Staging a backup
In the zmanda Management Console you can define a staging area (an optional write-cache mechanism),
which stores the backup image on the server's hard disk. Because backups can be written in parallel to the
staging area, backups can be completed in smaller windows than if writing directly to the device.
To set up a staging configuration, on the Backup tab, click staging. You can change the default options as
needed. For more information, see the Amanda documentation.
3.4 Defining when to back up
On the Backup tab, click when to define when to perform backups.
The Backup Schedule table shows the list of backup sets and backup schedules. This overall view of the
backup schedules provides helpful information about how backup windows overlap and the number of
backups running at any time.
 Edit the backup schedule as needed, and then click Update.