User manual

Chapter 3
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To schedule regular, automatic backups:
1. On the Maintenance screen, click Backup at the top.
2. Click Scheduled Backup.
3. In “Data to Backup,” select the type of Backup, as described in
step 2 in “Manual backup” on page 59.
4. To back up all files or to back up files changed within a certain time
frame, choose from the pull-down menu adjacent to “Backup files
modified in the last.”
5. Choose the frequency of the automatic backup.
• Daily means each day at 1 a.m.
• Weekly means every Sunday morning at 1 a.m. (Saturday night
going into Sunday morning)
• Monthly means on the first of every month at 1 a.m.
6. Choose a backup method.
• FTP Server writes the backup file to an FTP server.
• NFS places the backup file on a mountable NFS resource.
• SMB Server (Windows File Sharing) places the backup file
onto a directory shared from a Windows machine.
7. Enter a location for storing the backup data.
The location you specify depends in part on the backup method you
select in step 6. See “Backup File Locations” below for an
explanation of locations you can enter here.
8. Click Save Changes.
Backup file locations
For a backup by FTP Server:
• A location of
<username>@ftp.server.com puts the backup file
in the initial login directory.
• A location of
<username>@ftp.server.com/path/to/backups/
puts the backup file in the specified path on the server, using
<username> to login.