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Maintenance
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Maintenance
The Maintenance menu provides access to utilities for backing up and restoring
the Qube 3 system.
Backup
You can perform both scheduled backups and manual backups on the Qube 3.
Creating a backup
To create a backup of the data on the Qube 3:
1. Select Administration > Maintenance > Backup. The Scheduled Backup
List table appears.
2. Click Add. The Add Scheduled Backup table appears; see Figure 88.
3. Complete the fields in the table.
• Backup Name. This is a unique name assigned to a backup job which
can be used to identify backup sets at a later time. The backup name must
be a unique name.
• Files to Backup. This pull-down menu allows you to specify whether
this job is a full backup or an incremental backup.
You can choose to back up All Files (a full backup) or All files modified
in the last 31 days, 14 days, 7 days, 2 days or 1 day (incremental
backups).
• Method of Backup. This field allows you to specify the backup method
to use (SMB, NFS or FTP) and the necessary information for that
method. For more details on each of these methods, see “Backup file
locations” on page 177.
When a backup runs, it creates a new directory in the location specified
in these fields. The directory name is the time at which the backup was
started and has the form: Year Month Day Hour Minute Second. For
example, the directory name “20000921174533” indicates that the
backup was run at 17:45:33 on September 21, 2000.
• Backup Interval. This field allows you to specify how often a backup
job runs once it is scheduled. You can schedule a backup to run
immediately, once a day, once a week or once a month.
• Once a day means each day soon after midnight.
• Once a week means every Sunday morning after midnight (Saturday
night going into Sunday morning).
• Once a month means after midnight on the first of every month.