Backup Settings

Backup is based on the GFS (Grandfather–Father–Son) retention method for maintaining hierarchical restore points. GFS method describes a rotation scheme whereby a daily backup (the son), a weekly backup (the father) and a monthly backup (the grandfather) are created to maintain a hierarchical backup strategy.

To create an instant backup, use the buttons:

- Create Full Backup: This backup can be used to recreate a new Server. The User Interface is unreachable for approximately 2 up to 5 minutes, monitoring will be proceeded

- Create Small Backup: Only configuration settings will be saved

Specify the following back up settings here:

•Backup Directory : The directory where the backups are saved, the directory has to exist.

•Daily Backup: How to backup each day

•Weekly Backup: How to backup each week

•Monthly Backup: How to backup each month

•Retention: Choose how many backups to keep

•Notify When Backup Fails: Choose if you want to get notified when there are failures

•Notify When Completed: Choose if you want to get notified when backup is succeeded

•Notification Template:  Specify which notification template will be used. Click here for further information about Notification Template

•Notification Groups: Which groups should receive the notifications. Click here for further information about Notification Groups.

Beneath the settings an overview with the backup logging (last 100 lines) with details concerning the backups. The whole backup logging is located at:  <server_dir>\server\log\backup.log