Creating Backup Policies
- Updated on 21 Jan 2020
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- Login to Igneous
- Select the Policies link from the left-hand menu
- Click on the Create Policy button
- Select the Backup option
- Adjust the Backup frequency to twice a day, daily, weekly, every two weeks, monthly, or never (i.e., only run manually)
- Edit a time window from start to end when Igneous may scheduled the tasks assigned to this policy and click X when complete
- Select your desired target from the target dropdown. If your desired target is not in the drop down, please refer to the "configuring targets" section of the knowledge base.
- Modify the Retention for this policy by selecting an option from the drop down or by selecting Custom and entering a custom retention period in days
- To enable write-once, read-many (WORM) protection for this policy select the WORM dialog while carefully considering the warning that once WORM is enabled, it cannot be disabled
- If you would like your backup to be written to multiple places, select the orange "+" symbol to the right
- For dual-write backups where data is written to two locations simultaneously, select Backup option from the secondary action drop down. We recommend this action for the majority of multi-backup target use cases.
- To replicate data from the first destination to a second destination, select the Replicate option from the secondary action drop down.
- Give the policy a custom name if desired or leave the automatically chosen name and click Save to complete
- To cancel creating the policy click the X in the top right of the screen or click Cancel at the bottom of the screen
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