how does the smart backup work?

Answer by: George Kaloyanov, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support

With Aplus.Net’s powerful Smart Backup service plan, a dedicated server owner can select specific directories located on his / her server to be backed up automatically every single day.

Smart Backup work flow:

• The Smart Backup plan owner selects the directories that will be backed up.
• The initial full backup is created on the same day that the owner associates the directories with the Smart Backup plan.
• Aplus.Net will do incremental backup jobs every single day on the directories that are selected.
• Important: All directories and files that have changed since the last full backup or incremental backup will be backed up during the incremental backup job.
• If you don’t need the daily incremental backups, they can be disabled.

• Each Saturday the previous full backup and all incremental backups created since the previous full backup will be consolidated in a new full backup.

• This schedule repeats every single week with the daily incremental backup jobs and the consolidation backup job on Saturday.

Important: All backup jobs are separate and the data will be stored on Aplus.Net’s backup servers for 8 days. An incremental backup job data is stored for 8 days or until the full backup that it is associated with expires.

Example:

• Customer signs for the Smart Backup plan on Monday and chooses the directories to be backed up.
• The initial full backup job is created on Monday.
• Monday through Friday – An incremental backup job is performed every single day. Anything changed since the previous backup job is backed up in the daily incremental backup.
• Saturday – A Consolidation backup job is processed. The Monday full backup is consolidated with all daily incremental backups performed Monday through Friday.
• Saturday through Friday - An incremental backup job is performed every single day. Anything changed since the previous backup job is backed up in the daily incremental backup.
• Saturday – A Consolidation backup job is performed. The previous Saturday full backup is consolidated with all daily incremental backups performed Saturday through Friday.
• Cycle loops the last two steps.