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How do I schedule a backup?
| The Online Backup service client allows users to schedule backups to run automatically when the PC, laptop or server is available. This article shows how to configure the backup schedule.
- Select the required files/folders/drives for backup
- Click the 'Schedule Backup' button
- Select the desired date/time for the scheduled backup. A screen is displayed, as shown below:
The Scheduler screen has the following options that can be configured:
Date, Time and Frequency of backup
The following options are available to set date, time and frequency of backup are:
- Weekday: Schedule backup on any day(s) of the week.
- Monthly: Schedule the backup on any day of the month on a particular day and time.
- Start the backup immediately: Take an immediate backup of your files/folders.
- No Backup Schedule: Delete the scheduled backup job.
Email Notification
This option allows you to receive email notifications on the status of the scheduled backup jobs. Users can select the 'Notify always' or 'Notify on failure' option and must enter the email address for receiving the notifications in the 'Mail to' field.
You can set multiple email addresses using the + button and receive log details of the scheduled backup job along with the email notification by selecting the Send log extract option.
User who do not want to receive any notification can select the 'Do not notify' option.
Minor Tweaks
The additional settings available are:
- Auto-Pause: This option makes intelligent guesses on pausing and resuming backup to enable optimum desktop appearances during user activity
- Desktop Notification: This option allows you to receive notifications on your desktop regarding the status of scheduled backup jobs. To enable select the option Show desktop notification on the completion of scheduled backup
- Start the missed scheduled backup when the computer is turned on: This option allows the application to resume the scheduled backup automatically if your computer restarts within 30 minutes of the scheduled time
- Cut-off Time: This option stops the scheduled backup at the specific time, set by you. The backup is resumed at the next scheduled time from the point it was stopped. This ensures that the scheduled backups are not executed when the normal computer operations are going-on.
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