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Hi all,<\/p>\n

A number of users have been asking us to add a rotation scheme to BackupAssist that allows you to schedule backups to run once a month. In previous versions, you could not schedule anything less frequent than a weekly backup. This was a deliberate decision, as we felt that a single backup each month was not enough to protect against data loss: if your monthly backup was lost or corrupt and you experienced system failure, you could lose an entire month of data changes, which could be very costly for your business.<\/p>\n

With the advent of new and inexpensive backup hardware – onsite and offsite – many businesses are realizing the benefits of a multi-tiered approach to backup. An example strategy might involve: daily images to a pool of external hard drives as your primary backup; daily File Replication mirrors to a local NAS as a secondary backup; and Rsync backups of critical data once a month to an offsite location as a tertiary backup. This setup gives you three layers of redundancy for your data, which means you are not reliant on just one set of backups.<\/p>\n

While previous versions of BackupAssist did not allow you to schedule monthly backups, we did offer a manual workaround that involved creating a job, suspending it, creating a desktop shortcut for the job, and then using a Windows Scheduled Task to run the shortcut once a month. This workaround was rather cumbersome, so we’ve included a Full Archive <\/strong>scheme in BackupAssist v6.2.0 that you can use to schedule backups once a month to portable media and Rsync servers. The Full Archive scheme separates backups into 1 yearly, 4 quarterly and 7 monthly backups.<\/p>\n

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The intention is that these archives are stored permanently offsite and brought onsite if you need to restore.<\/p>\n

We hope this new feature is of benefit to you and makes adding extra layers of data redundancy easier. For full setup instructions read our How to configure monthly backups<\/a> article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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