Scheduling backups overview

A scheduled backup automatically invokes a full backup at the scheduled date and time. A full backup backs up all the files for the chosen type of backup, not only the files that have changed. Scheduling backups frees up your staff to attend to other tasks and saves the inconvenience of remembering to invoke regular manual backups.

A full backup can be scheduled for:   

Backup Pre-requisites

Ensure you have fulfilled the following requirements:

Planning a backup schedule

A full backup consumes considerable disk space. When you back up data, the existing archive is not overwritten; a new backup (in tar or .gz format) is written to your backup server.

It is important that you schedule the backup at a time of low user traffic.

A backup can be scheduled daily, weekly or monthly. The frequency of changes to information is a good indicator of how often you need to back up information. If the frequency of data revisions is high, then a backup must be scheduled daily, so that loss of data is minimal.

Confirming successful backup

If the files are backed up successfully to the backup server, you will receive a mail notification to that effect. The mail is sent to the email address specified at the time of scheduling the backup.

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