Managing Scheduled Backup Tasks

Using the ATIS management module interface, you can schedule crontab to start backup imaging tasks at specified time. The tasks will be performed by the ATIS application installed on your server.

To schedule a new backup task:

  1. On the Tasks tab of the ATIS module main page, click Schedule New Backup.
  2. Under Backup time, specify the schedule for the backup task:

  3. Specify other settings for the scheduled backup task:
    1. Under Partitions for backup, select the hard disk partition for which want to create a backup file.

      The list of partitions shows the hard disk structure of your server, including the relative path point and the type of disk file systems (Mount point and File system type column). You must select at least one partition for backup. You can select a random set of partitions.

    2. Under Backup settings, specify the following settings of backing up:

    1. Select the Use password protection check box to protect the backup file with a password and enter your password in the fields below.

      The maximum password length is 30 symbols.

  4. Click OK to create a scheduled backup task.

After the scheduled task creation procedure is complete, the backup creation task will appear in the list of scheduled backup tasks and in the list of cron tasks for superuser (root).

Note: To view the task in crontab, select Server in the navigation pane and click Crontab on the Server administration page.

To remove a scheduled backup task:

  1. In the list of tasks, select the check box that corresponds to the task you want to delete and click Remove Selected.
  2. On the next page, confirm task removal and click OK.

The task will be removed from the list of scheduled backup tasks in the module and from the cron tasks.

To edit settings of a scheduled backup task, click the frequency of the task in the Period column and edit task settings on the next page.