Backup Window Settings

• Overview
• How to get here in the Gbackup Web Console?
• Client Side
• Backup Server Side
• Limitations

Overview

Backup Window is the hours during which the Gbackup client can run its backups. You can configure Gbackup client to not backup during certain hours of the day. This is useful when the user doesn’t want Gbackup to backup, say, during the peak hours when the client machine is running several other applications and the hardware resources in the client machine are limited

How to get here in the Gbackup Web Console ? On the top menu, select: Administration -> Advanced Options -> Backup Window Settings

To set a backup window, go to the Backup Window Settings page, click on the Enable checkbox and select the From Time and the To Time between which you don’t want Gbackup to backup. You can also select if this time period should be applied on all days or only on week days (Monday to Friday).

If you configure Gbackup to not backup, say, between 8am and 6pm, then the backup window will be in between 6pm and 8am. If you have scheduled a backup to start at 2pm, then Gbackup will start the backup only at 6pm. This is applicable to Additional Full Backup schedules as well.

If you configure Gbackup to not backup, say, between 8am and 6pm and if a backup is in progress, then at 8am Gbackup will end the backup job. Gbackup will add an entry in the client side backup report as shown below.

Client Side

Also, it will add an entry in the backup server side report as shown below.

Backup Server Side

Gbackup will then reschedule the backup to start at 6pm. When the backup starts at 6pm, it will then check for all new/modified files again and then start backing them up. It will not start from where it left off when it was last stopped (at 8am). For example, say the backup started at 6pm and continued to run till 8am. During this time, say 100,000 files were backed up and still 20,000 files are left to be backed up. When backup restarts the next day at 6 pm, Gbackup will also try to backup the modified files among the 100,000 files that were backed up earlier along with the 20,000 files that were not backed up.

Limitations

1. If a backup is stopped because the backup window ended, then when Gbackup resumes the backup at the beginning of the next backup window, it cannot continue the backup from where it left off. Gbackup will check all the files for changes including those that were earlier backed up.