Home Forums It's time to get real f&*(g serious about backups

If you are referring to the local backup app that you find in the AmazingCharts folder:



then a successful notification will confirm that your backup ran and ended up everywhere you wanted it to go. You can see here that other than the default backup, there are three more paths it can go, which is probably a bit of overkill. There are settings here for scheduling and deciding if you are going to backup your imported items offsite. It's a good idea to not do that as they can get 5, 10, even 20GBs and take forever to back up.

FYI: If you are talking about the new offsite backup program, it has an incremental option so you can backup everything including the Imported Items. But, you still want a local backup, because it can take a day or so to download the offsite backup.

As far as where it defaults to, you are correct. It defaults to the server in the BACKUPS folder in the AmazingCharts folder.



It is good because those not familiar with backups may not know how to find or browse to the backup, so there is always one location that support can tell them where to find it. On the other hand, it is the worst location as far as a backup strategy as your backup is in the root folder of AC.

I believe in version 9.4, you will have the option of turning that one off. Reason being if you forget they are there, you could end up with a very large folder on your server.