Section 2 - Best practices and recommendations

This section describes the best practices for your backup client application.

2.8 Difference between Local Copy and Seed Load

The Local Copy and Seed Load features are very similar in terms of what they do.

While the Local Copy feature is designed for user who wants to an extra copy of the backup data locally, at the client site, the Seed Load feature is designed for initial backup of large data (e.g. initial backup of large MS Exchange database).

A Seed Load backup is performed onto a removable storage device to be imported on the backup server physically, bypassing the bottleneck of Internet backup.

The major differences between Local Copy and Seed Load are:





Feature	Local Copy	Seed Load
Retention Policy	Retention policy can be applied on local copy backup.	No retention policy is applied on seed load backup.
In-file Delta	Advance In-file Delta type setting can be applied on local copy backup.	No In-file Delta type setting is applied on seed load backup.
Backup Schedule	Local copy backup can be performed manually or by schedule.	Seed load backup can only be performed manually.




For performance consideration, it is highly recommended that the local copy backup be performed on a local hard disk, and not to a network location.





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