Backup Policy

Backup Policy

Backup Cycle

The backup cycle determines the frequency of backup execution. ZSvirt provides three options for platform database backups: weekly, daily, and hourly backups.

Execution Time

If the backup cycle is set to weekly or daily, you can set a more granular execution time, down to the minute level.

• Backup by Week: If you set the execution time to 00:00 on Sunday and Tuesday of each week, the incremental backup is executed at 00:00:00 on Sunday and Tuesday of each week.
• Backup by Day: If you set the execution time to 00:30, the incremental backup is executed at 00:30:00 every day.

Start Time

The backup plan begins at the start time and executes backups according to the configured backup cycle and execution time.

Retention Policy

Each successful backup generates a set of backup data used to restore the platform database data to a previous point in time. To control the amount of backup data, you must specify a retention policy. Based on the backup scenario, ZSvirt can set separate retention policies for local backup data and remote backup data.

• Local Retention Policy:
  • Retain by quantity: Retain a minimum of 1 local backup data.
  • Retain by time: Retain a minimum of 1 day of local backup data.
• Remote Retention Policy:
  • Retain permanently: Remote backup data will not be automatically cleaned up.
  • Retain by quantity: Retain a minimum of 1 remote backup data.
  • Retain by time: Retain a minimum of 1 day of remote backup data.