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More About Automation

This page contains extra information that can be useful when streamlining backup management in your organization.

Setting up dsmc programmatically

It may be desirable to automate the installation of the backup-archive client (dsmc) on end-user computers. These could be employee workstations/laptops, servers or other nodes with important data. Performing the installations automatically may be especially desirable when such devices are deployed on a regular basis.

There is an excellent article about how to do this. It also goes to great lengths explaining how to programmatically configure encrypted backups.