Scheduling exports

When you schedule an export, you automate the export to occur at a pre-set date, time, and location.

To schedule an export, in the shortcuts section of the Home page, click Export/Import (Tools section), then click Schedule Export. The Scheduled Export window opens. Click Schedule.

Follow the wizard to schedule an export.

go to wizard Step1 Step2 Step3 Step4

You need to choose the type of export (Reseller, Site), enter the export schedule information, provide necessary FTP account details and other miscellaneous information.
 

wizard Step1: Choose the type of export

1. Choose the type of export, by selecting one of the option buttons in the Type of Export area.

1. Reseller - Exports your configuration information, all the sites hosted on your account, and site users.

2. Sites - Exports the sites hosted on your account and the site user files.

Click the arrow in the Sites list, and choose one of the following.

• All - To export all sites hosted on your account.

• <name of the Site> - To export a selected site.
  Press Ctrl + the left mouse button to select more than one site.

wizard Step2: Enter the export Schedule information

2. Select the frequency at which you want to export data.  

3. Important: You may want to schedule a daily export for premium sites, demanding applications, or volatile data entities.

Select any one of the options in the Frequency field.

• Daily - Exports files daily at the scheduled time

• Weekly - Exports files weekly at the scheduled day and time

• Monthly - Exports files monthly at the scheduled date and time

3. Click the arrow in the Minutes list, and select a number between 0 and 59.

4. Click the arrow in the Hours list, and select a number between 0 and 23.

5. Click the arrow in the Day of Week list, and select a day between Sunday and Saturday.

6. Click the arrow in the Day of Month list, and select a number between 1 and 31.

• Important: If you select a value in the Day of Month field that is not common to all the months, the export fails to run as scheduled on certain months.
  For example, if you select 31, no export will be initiated on months that contain 30 or 28 days.

wizard Step3: Enter FTP information

7. In the FTP Server field, enter the name of the FTP server you want to use as the export server.

8. In the FTP Login field, enter the user name of your account on the FTP server.

9. In the FTP Password field, enter the password of your account on the FTP server.

10. In the FTP Location field, enter the complete directory path of the export directory on the FTP server.   

11. Important: If you leave the field blank or the specified directory does not exist, the export fails and an email message containing the error is sent to you.

wizard Step4: Enter miscellaneous information

11. Optional: In the Maximum Export File Size field, enter the maximum size of the export file.

• Important: Various file systems and FTP server utilities have limits on the file size they can handle. If the size of your export file exceeds the file management threshold of the file system or the FTP server utility on your export server, the file is split into multiple files before continuing with the export operation.  
  The split files follow the naming convention as given below:
  <exportfilename.tar.gz>
  <exportfilename.1.tar.gz>
  <exportfilename.2.tar.gz>
  where exportfilename is the name of your export file.

12. Click the arrow in the Unit list, and select the appropriate data quantifying unit (Megabytes or Gigabytes).

13. In the Email field, enter the email address at which you want to receive export status notifications.

14. Click Schedule.

The list of scheduled exports is updated.