In the Backup tasks area, you define the settings for backups.

The backup profiles are available to manage the repositories. For more information, refer to the ELO Backup documentation.

Backup tasks

Backup profiles: Click Start to start the backup process using the settings for the most recently selected backup profile. (See the Backup profiles area). Click Stop to stop the backup immediately.

Backup and purge: Click Start to start the backup process using the settings for the most recently selected backup profile. (See the Backup profiles area). Old documents are also removed.

Automatically purge old documents

In the Automatically purge old documents area, you define the settings for automatically removing old documents.

Information: Old documents are documents stored in ELO that have been backed up and have reached the defined minimum age.

Save: Click Save to save the settings for automatically removing old documents.

Reset: Click Reset to restore the default settings for automatically removing old documents.

Minimum age in days: This value specifies after how many days old documents may be deleted. A value of 0 means that all old documents will be deleted.

Compare mode: This is where you select the mode used to search for old documents.

• Compare contents: A document is considered old when the backup contains a document with identical contents.
• No comparison: All documents are considered old documents.
• Compare contents: A document is considered old when the backup contains a document of identical size.

Document path: Select the document path from which old documents will be removed. It is possible to choose from all paths.

Start hour: Defines at which hour the deletion process will start each day, or if the deletion process should be run once every hour.