Scheduling custom backups

Schedule a Custom backup if you want a job to repeat at specified intervals, but you don't want to keep submitting the job manually.

Ellen wants to back up her programs every other day, and she only wants to include certain files, while filtering out others. After carefully setting up her job, she would just like it to run regularly, so she doesn't have to keep submitting the job manually.

Follow the steps below to set up a repeating job.

  1. Select your source and destination.

    Select any sources, options, and then the destination for this job.

  2. Click the Run button.

  3. Click the Setup button.

    The Custom dialog box displays.

  4. Decide when you want the job to run.

    Ellen wants the job to run every other day, except weekends:


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