{"id":10194,"date":"2018-01-10T09:08:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=10194"},"modified":"2018-01-10T09:08:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T22:08:14","slug":"stopping-backups-during-holiday-periods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/stopping-backups-during-holiday-periods","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Backups During Holiday Periods"},"content":{"rendered":"

For most businesses, running a backup on a public holiday is unnecessary. For one, your data isn’t changing, so a fresh backup of it isn’t really required.<\/p>\n

On top of that, if you’re using external media for storage (E.g. USB HDD, Tapes), it’s not very practical either. Let’s face it, you’ve got better things to do over a holiday then come into the office to change a disk – especially if the data hasn’t changed!<\/p>\n

With BackupAssist, it’s easy to prevent backups from running on days your company has closed for business.<\/p>\n

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  1. Go to the Backup tab<\/li>\n
  2. Click ‘Manage’ in the menu.<\/li>\n
  3. Select your backup job and open it.<\/li>\n
  4. Select ‘Calendar’ from the right menu,<\/li>\n
  5. Right click on the day you wish to cancel backups.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    If your business is not running for several days at a time, you could suspend the entire job rather than cancelling individual days. However, this runs the risk of someone forgetting to re-enable it (and data loss!), so it is not advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    While we love backups (It’s our business!), there are some times they can be skipped. 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