Data Archive scheduled backup configuration

We recommend that you configure an automatic daily backup of Data Archive. The Data Archive installation includes a script that you can use to set up a daily backup as a Windows service, which we refer to as the scheduled backup task. The scheduled backup task performs an incremental, verified backup each day.

While the scheduled backup task is running, you can access Data Archive as usual. For example, you can create points and push data to the archives. To minimize performance impact during backups, use the recommended disk configuration. See Recommended disk configuration for Data Archive backups.

The scheduled backup task places the backup files in a directory specified by the Windows task, which we refer to as the scheduled backup directory. The scheduled backup directory holds only the most recent verified backup.

In addition to the scheduled backup task, we strongly recommend that you use a third-party backup application to back up the scheduled backup directory to a safe location.