Scheduling a Forest Backup
You can schedule forest backups to periodically back up a forest. You can schedule backups to occur daily, weekly, monthly, or you can schedule a one-time backup. You can create as many scheduled backups as you want.
To create a scheduled backup, follow these steps:
Click the Forests icon on the left tree menu.
Select the forest for which you want to schedule a backup, either from the tree menu or from the Forest Summary page. The Forest Configuration page appears.
Click the Scheduled Backup link in the tree menu for the forest. The Scheduled Backup Configuration page appears.
On the Scheduled Backup Configuration page, you can delete any existing scheduled backups if you no longer need them.
Click the Create tab. The Create Scheduled Backups page appears.
Enter the absolute path to the backup directory. The backup directory must have permissions such that the MarkLogic Server process can read and write to it.
Choose a scheduled or one-time for the backup type:
For minutely, enter how many minutes between each backup.
For hourly, enter how many hours between each backup. The Backup Minute setting specifies how many minutes after the hour the backup is to start. Note that the Backup Minute setting does not add to the interval.
For daily, enter how many days between each backup and the time of day.
For weekly, enter how many weeks between each backup, check one or more days of the week, and the time of day for the backup to start.
For monthly, enter how many months between each backup, select one day of the month (1-31), and the time of day for the backup to start.
For one-time, enter the backup start date in MM/DD/YYYY notation (for example, 07/29/2009 for July 29, 2009) and time in 24:00 notation.
Enter the time of day to start the backup.
Click OK to create the scheduled backup.
The backups will automatically start according to the specified schedule.