2.10 Archive and Hot Backup Configuration Screen for Calendar Server 6.3

This screen allows you to select both automatic backup types, or either one of the two, or none. Select or deselect the boxes appropriately. Using both archive backups and hot backups is strongly recommended.

Prevent the catastrophic loss of all your database copies due to an equipment failure. Keep your automatic backup copies on a disk or disk system other than the one where your live databases reside.

For information on automatic backups, see Chapter 9, Configuring Automatic Backups (csstored).

Figure 2–10 Archive and hot backup Configuration Screen

Enable Archive

When this box is selected (default), csstored will take a snapshot of your calendar databases every 24 hours. Throughout the day, at regular intervals, it stores the transaction log files for that day with the snapshot in the archive backup directory.

If this box is not checked, the Archive Directory input field is greyed out.

Archive Directory

Choose the backup directory by clicking Browse, or accept the default.

Enable Hot Backup

When this box is selected (default), csstored takes a snapshot of your calendar databases every 24 hours, then applies the transaction logs to the snapshot at a set interval (default is two minutes), throughout the day, ensuring a nearly complete duplicate of your live database.

If this box is not checked, the Hot Backup Directory input field is greyed out.

Hot Backup Directory

Choose the backup directory by clicking Browse, or accept the default.

Keep Archives for (in days)

This field is only active if the Enable Archive box is selected; otherwise, it is greyed out.

Click the up or down arrows in the Minimum and Maximum fields to select range of days of archival backups to keep in the backup directory.

Keep Hot Backups for (in days)

This field is only active if the Enable Hot Backup box is selected; otherwise, it is greyed out.

You can set the number of hot backups to keep in two ways:

• Click the up or down arrows in the Minimum and Maximum fields to select the range of days of hot backups to keep in the directory.

  The number of copies actually stored at any one time depends on the size of the files and the size of the directory. When either the size limits, or maximum number of copies exceeds the limit, the oldest copies are purged down to the minimum number specified on this configuration screen.

• If you want the same settings for Hot Backups as for Archival Backups, you can check the Same As Archive box.

Click Next to continue, Back to return to the previous screen, or Cancel to quit the configuration program.