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Backup service settings reference

You can configure the following options in the "Backup Service" section of the Management Console.

  • Number of snapshots: Sets how many backup snapshots to retain (default: 10). Older snapshots are automatically pruned after each successful backup.

  • Skip audit logs restore: Excludes audit logs during a restore.
  • Restore Management Console password: If enabled, restores the root site admin password from snapshot data (default: true).

  • Process priority:

    • Nice: Sets the CPU scheduling priority (nice -n 19 by default).
    • Ionice: Sets the I/O scheduling priority (ionice -c 3 by default).
  • Rsync compression: Uses compression for rsync transfers during backup and restore, reducing bandwidth usage.

  • MSSQL backup cadence: Sets the schedule for full, differential, and transaction log backups, in minutes (default: 10080,1440,15).

  • Include Pages: Adds Pages data to snapshots.
  • Skip search indices: Excludes search index data from snapshots.

  • Enable parallel jobs: Allows multiple backup jobs to run concurrently.
  • Max jobs: Limits the total number of parallel backup jobs.
  • Max rsync jobs: Limits the number of parallel rsync jobs.
  • Max system load: Sets a load limit to throttle parallel processing when needed.