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This form sets up the settings for a job. Notice that the screenshot was taken part-way through typing the job name, and the job form's title at the top of the form and on the button on the left are updating as the title field is edited.
Briefly:
- Name is the name of the job
- Job Type is either Simple or Incremental
- Check Rate influences the system's level of double-checking when files do not appear to have changed
- Explore Retry is used to limit the number of times the backup script will retry when finding available source files
- Transfer Retry sets the retry limit for transfer attempts on a single file
- Timestamp Retry sets the retry limit for remote timestamp checks for a file
- Failure Limit sets the number of consecutive file failures before the job is aborted
- Hostname / IP is the name or address of the source host
- FTP server port is the port on which the service is listening
- FTP username is the username to use when logging on to the FTP server
- FTP password is the password to use when logging on to the FTP server
- Copy from is the path, relative to the FTP root, to copy from
- Copy to is the directory to use to store copies of this job's files
- Min file count protects against mirroring empty trees by requiring a certain minimum number of files