{"id":69,"date":"2016-02-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yohoho.msp360.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2024-01-05T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T10:20:08","slug":"scheduling-full-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/scheduling-full-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheduling Full Backup in MSP360 Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSP360 Backup features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/block-level-backup\/\">block-level backup<\/a> that allows uploading of changed parts of files instead of whole files. This decreases the processing time, time for data upload, and storage space. If you enable block-level backup in MSP360 Backup, the backup plan wizard will suggest you set up an automatic running of a full backup.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis might be necessary for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The total size of block-level backups outgrows the size of the full backup over time.<\/li>\n<li>During a recovery from block-level backup, our software will analyze each block, put together only the needed ones, and then recover the data. If there are bazillions of blocks from a yearly backup, the recovery will take significant time.<\/li>\n<li>To keep the needed number of versions for files. The block-level backup consists of small parts of files, rather than the files. We cannot delete the single block in a row - this will make data unrecoverable. Thus, to delete the old and non-needed version of the file, we need to delete the full backup sequence. Unless a new full backup is done, we won\u2019t delete the old one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Setting Up Full Backup<\/h2>\n<p>MSP360 Backup provides options to run full backup periodically according to a schedule and to force full backup if the total size of all block-level backups is larger than a certain % of the last full backup.<br \/>\nWe strongly recommend to specify a schedule for automatic running of a full backup on this wizard page to ensure that the older versions of your files are always available in a storage that uses a block-level backup.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27737 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/schedule-full-backup.png\" alt=\"Full backup scheduling options\" width=\"643\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/schedule-full-backup.png 643w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/schedule-full-backup-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/schedule-full-backup-624x487.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Force Full Backup<\/h3>\n<p id=\"last\">We have also added an option to <strong>Force Full Backup<\/strong> to the Backup Plans tab so that you can quickly run full backup when necessary.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"further-reading \">Further reading<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/data-backup-plan\/\">Backup Plan: The Ultimate Guide to Saving Your Data<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"slidebox\"><a class=\"close\">\u00a0<\/a><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span class=\"hs-cta-wrapper hs-cta-deferred\" id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-aa07fdb8-7776-46a5-9fa0-ec6e93f0f0a6\" data-portal=\"5442029\" data-id=\"aa07fdb8-7776-46a5-9fa0-ec6e93f0f0a6\"><span class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-aa07fdb8-7776-46a5-9fa0-ec6e93f0f0a6\" id=\"hs-cta-aa07fdb8-7776-46a5-9fa0-ec6e93f0f0a6\"><!--[if lte IE 8]><div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div><![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/5442029\/aa07fdb8-7776-46a5-9fa0-ec6e93f0f0a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" id=\"hs-cta-img-aa07fdb8-7776-46a5-9fa0-ec6e93f0f0a6\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/5442029\/aa07fdb8-7776-46a5-9fa0-ec6e93f0f0a6.png\" alt=\"CTA\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27736 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/force-full-backup.png\" alt=\"Force full backup option in Backup Plans tab\" width=\"759\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/force-full-backup.png 759w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/force-full-backup-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/force-full-backup-624x243.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><br \/>\nWe hope this option helps you keep your storage size more efficient and make the restore process faster. As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This post applies to MSP360 Backup 2.6.2 and later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSP360 Backup features block-level backup that allows uploading of changed parts of files instead of whole files. This decreases the processing time, time for data upload, and storage space. If you enable block-level backup in MSP360 Backup, the backup plan wizard will suggest you set up an automatic running of a full backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[877,894,882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-articles","category-msp360-backup","category-msp360-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57243,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/57243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}