If you require a more specific time trigger than the standard 90-, 30-, and 7-day options, you can configure the Cloud Backup
Service to initiate a backup via trigger schedule. This procedure describes using
Workbench to set up a trigger schedule that causes the Cloud Backup Service to run a backup at midnight each night.
Prerequisites:
- User role(s) already assigned to you in
asset manager
- Connected to a running station, already configured for cloud connectivity
- The device is already registered in the
asset manager
- Schedule palette
Perform the following steps:
- Open a Property Sheet view on the Cloud Backup Service.
- From the schedule palette, drag a Trigger Schedule to the top of the property sheet.
- In the Name dialog, enter a name for this event trigger, for example: Midnight_Backup.
- In the property sheet, click on the new trigger property to open the Trigger Scheduler view.
- Click to Add a new event trigger, configure the event name, date, and time as needed and click Save. For this example, the new MidnightBackupTrigger is set to occur every day at 12:00 AM.
- In the Nav tree, expand the Cloud Backup Service, and link the new event trigger (ex: Midnight_Backup) to the Cloud Backup
Service. To do this:
- Right-click on the new event trigger (ex: Midnight_Backup) and click Link Mark.
- Right click on the Cloud Backup Service and click Link From (ex: Midnight_Backup) .
- In the Link dialog, click on the source slot Trigger and the target slot Backup, and click OK.
The added event trigger will trigger the service to run a cloud backup each night at midnight. Note that although useful as
an example, this degree of frequency may not be preferable in an actual production environment.