Backup Schedules¶

Schedule options¶

Backups are performed daily and retained for 7 days.

Number of iterations is the number of backups that are stored by your retention schedule. For example, retaining 7 iterations of a daily backup is a 7 day retention period. It is not currently possible to change the number of iterations or frequency.

Manually Start Backup schedules the backup to be executed as soon as possible by the server outside of the standard schedule.

Backup Window is a time period when the backup server will attempt to perform backups. This must be at least a 3 hour period to ensure that all backups can be queued and performed efficiently.

Custom includes and excludes¶

Includes and excludes are directories, partial directories or wildcard file names that are explicitly included or excluded from your backup.

Default includes and excludes are setup automatically with your server and more rules can be added via MyUKFast. If you do not want any of the default exclusions to apply, you can overwrite the default exclusions by setting a custom inclusion. Using custom inclusions will imply that you want all of your backups to be custom and will therefore overwrite the defaults.

User defined includes and excludes¶

Navigate to the “custom includes/excludes section on the page and select + Add custom record and follow the guidance below to create a rule.”

Directories can be absolute like C:/Users/WorkPC/Documents or /home/centos/documents – this would backup the whole “Documents” folder. Wildcards can also be used C:/Users/WorkPC/Documents/*.xlsx or /home/centos/documents/*.xlsx – this would backup any .xlsx files in the “Documents” folder. It is also possible to backup specific files from across the whole volume, for instance on linux systems *.bin would backup all .bin files from the volume, or C:/*.docx would backup all of the *.bin files on the C drive.

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