Optimization
Learn how to optimize your backup tasks.
GitProtect provides several features to help you optimize your backup tasks and configure them quickly and easily, depending on your needs. When creating a backup plan, you can customize the backup window, task balancing, storage location, bandwidth limits, and more.
Scheduler & Retention
This feature allows you to automate your backup schedule, set a backup window, and define the time zone for your backup plans.
Backup window
The backup window allows you to specify the hours during which backups are permitted to run. Any backup tasks scheduled outside of this window will not start, and tasks that exceed the allowed time frame will be stopped and marked as failed. This ensures that backups do not interfere with business hours or critical system operations, giving you full control over when your backup processes run.
There is no way to run a backup task that was stopped for exceeding the backup window.
It is not possible to run a backup task during a blocked time frame.
Task balancing
Balance backup speed and CPU load — task balancing feature allows you to set a limit on the number of concurrent tasks or configure a delay between the start of successive tasks.
Task balancing can be configured in the Advanced settings of a backup plan.
Backup storage
In the Backup storage tab, you can view information about the assigned storages—GitProtect is a multi-storage system, allowing you to distribute backup data across multiple locations.
To optimize resource usage on the devices where data is stored, you can assign each backup plan to a different storage.
Backup scripts
Backup scripts are divided into three categories depending on the moment at which we want to execute them:
Pre-backup — executed before the backup starts. You can configure the backup to wait until this script finishes, which is mandatory for scenarios like SQL database backups.
Post-snapshot — executed after the backup snapshots have been created.
Post-backup — executed after the backup completes. For example, this script can be used to shut down the backed-up machine.
Shutdown
To shut down the computer after finishing the task, select the Post-task script, then choose the operating system and select Shutdown from the drop-down list. This script helps optimize backups by reducing energy consumption and freeing up system resources once the backup is complete, especially for machines that do not need to remain running outside working hours.
Enter path
Allows you to run a custom script; simply type the path to your script to execute it using GitProtect (Windows, Linux, and macOS).
Bandwidth limit
With the bandwidth limit feature, you can control network usage by setting an internet speed limit— simply enter a value and select the unit (kB/s, MB/s, or GB/s).
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