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Is one-way live (real-time) back-up possible?
Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2024 5:57 pm
by marcov
Is it possible let FBackup (or the paid version) make immediate backups of data as soon as it detects a change (added file) to a specified folder? In the wizard, I only saw the option to set 'Daily' as minimum interval, but I would like it to backup data immediately. I don't need two-way sync, one-way backup is fine.
Thanks.
Re: Is one-way live (real-time) back-up possible?
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2024 12:00 pm
by Adrian (Softland)
Hi,
As FBackup is not a monitoring application, you cannot do the backup right after a file was modified.
You can schedule the backup to be executed "daily" but in the advanced page of the scheduler, you can set the scheduler to repeat every X minutes.
This way, you can run the backup every minute every day.
Re: Is one-way live (real-time) back-up possible?
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2024 5:37 pm
by marcov
Thanks, that works! And can I program it to only keep an X number of copies of a backup, either in the free or paid version? For example, only keep the most recent backup files for 5 days, delete/overwrite any that are older?
Re: Is one-way live (real-time) back-up possible?
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2024 3:29 pm
by marcov
Can I program it to only keep an X number of copies of a backup, either in the free or paid version? For example, only keep the most recent backup files for 5 days, delete/overwrite any that are older?
Re: Is one-way live (real-time) back-up possible?
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2024 9:32 am
by Adrian (Softland)
Hi,
Yes you can do that but only in the paid version (Backup4all).
You need to configure a Cleanup scheduled action to run every day and delete the backup versions older than X days.
Re: Is one-way live (real-time) back-up possible?
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:50 pm
by marcov
Adrian (Softland) wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 9:32 am
Hi,
Yes you can do that but only in the paid version (Backup4all).
You need to configure a Cleanup scheduled action to run every day and delete the backup versions older than X days.
I installed the trial version of Backup4all and imported the backup task from FBackup, but the Cleanup task is greyed out (in the What tab of Scheduler Properties).
Re: Is one-way live (real-time) back-up possible?
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:52 pm
by marcov
Adrian (Softland) wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 9:32 am
Hi,
Yes you can do that but only in the paid version (Backup4all).
You need to configure a Cleanup scheduled action to run every day and delete the backup versions older than X days.
Does the cleanup scheduled action work for both local backups (to a NAS) as well as Google Drive (i.e. can it delete files older than X days from both NAS and Google Drive)?
Re: Is one-way live (real-time) back-up possible?
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 9:56 am
by Adrian (Softland)
Hi,
Yes, you can use Cleanup with any destination except CD/DVD/Blu-ray.
Re: Is one-way live (real-time) back-up possible?
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 2:36 pm
by marcov
Adrian (Softland) wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2024 9:56 am
Hi,
Yes, you can use Cleanup with any destination except CD/DVD/Blu-ray.
I installed the trial version of Backup4all and imported the backup task from FBackup, but the Cleanup task is greyed out (in the What tab of Scheduler Properties).
Re: Is one-way live (real-time) back-up possible?
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 3:47 pm
by marcov
I'm trying to setup Google Drive as destination. After Backup4all prompts me to login to Google Drive, which I can successfully do, it asks me select the Destination folder on Google Drive. After I click Sign in and select my account, I get:
403. That’s an error.
We're sorry, but you do not have access to this page. That’s all we know.
I tried this with several Google accounts, all return the same error.