Settings Dialog

General

Select where to save snapshots and schedule automatic backups: disabled, every 5 minutes, every 10 minutes, every hour, every day, every week, every month.

Automatic backup use cron jobs so cron must be running.

Include

Select directories you want to backup.

Exclude

For the files/directories in includes directories you can exclude some of them.
You can specify exclude them directly or using patterns.

Auto-Remove

You can automatically remove snapshots older then a specific date or if the free space is less then a specified value.

Smart remove allow you to reduce the number of snapshots using the following rules:

  • keep all snapshots from today and yesterday
  • keep one snapshot for the last week and one for two weeks ago
  • keep one snapshot per month for all previous months of this year
  • keep one snapshot per year for all previous years

You can also specify is auto-remove should keep named snapshots (default true).

Options

  • Enable notifications: if there is an error while taking a snapshot it will display a notification popup.

Expert Options

  • Enable schedule per included directory: if selected include list (include tab) will show a second column (‘Schedule’). This column allow you to specify the schedule per directory.