Customizing the Current Backup Configuration

This section describes how to customize your backup configuration from the MySQL Cloud Service Console. The following tasks are possible:.

  • Defining the schedule for a full backup. The full backup is performed once a week.

  • Defining the schedule for an incremental backup. Incremental backups are performed daily.

  • Defining the default retention period. This defines for how many days the backups are kept in the cloud storage. Backups older than the defined number of days are deleted.

Customizing Backup Configuration From the Console

To customize the backup configuration, do the following:

  1. Select the service.

  2. On the service details page, select Adminstration to open the Backup tab.

  3. Select Configure Backups to open the Configure Backups dialog.

  4. Define the schedules for your backups and the retention period.