Scheduling backups

Scheduled backups ensure that files are backed up regularly without fail and frees up manual resources to focus on other operational tasks.

When you schedule a backup, you automate the backup to occur at a pre-set date and time. The backup is initiated at the set time without any manual interfacing.

To schedule a backup:

go to wizard Step1 Step2 Step3 Step4

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

wizard Step1: Choose the type of backup

  1. Choose the type of backup, by selecting one of the option buttons in the Type of Backup area.

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

  1. Sites - Backs up the sites hosted on your account and the site user files.

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

wizard Step2: Enter backup Schedule information

  1. Schedule your backup.  

  2. Important: Premium sites, demanding applications, volatile data entities may qualify for daily backups.

Select any one of the options in the Frequency field.

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

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

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

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

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

wizard Step3: Enter FTP information

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

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

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

  4. In the FTP Location field, enter the complete directory path of the backup directory on the FTP server. If you leave the field blank, the data will be saved to the home directory of the user specified in Step 3.  

wizard Step4: Enter miscellaneous information

  1. Optional: In the Maximum Backup File Size field, enter the maximum file size of the backup.

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

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

  2. In the Email field, enter the email address at which you want to receive email notifications about your backups.

  3. Click Schedule.

The list of scheduled backups is updated.

 

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