Setting up a backup plan
This article contains information, on how to set up a GitHub backup plan
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This article contains information, on how to set up a GitHub backup plan
Last updated
To create a new backup plan open the Plans tab and click the (+) Add Plan button in the top bar. After that, the system will display a new panel. Enter a name for the plan.
Define the name of a backup plan and set the Backup type section to GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket
In this section select the GitHub environment that you want to include in the backup process, and select the repositories to backup. Optionally, GitProtect allows you to protect the whole GitHub environment.
GitProtect gives you an opportunity to select the appropriate metadata, which you are interested to backup.
See also the article with the protected GitHub resources / elements / metadata:
Here you can also change the Worker - is a device that is directly responsible for the backup process of your repositories. You can have many workers and use different workers for each backup plan.
It is worth to know, that Cloud Worker ( cloud-installed GitProtect worker) allows you to perform Cloud-to-cloud backup, in case if you want to store your backups in the Cloud. See also following articles, to learn more about GitProtect workers, its license and also about cloud-to-cloud backup.
See the following articles to see more about the Worker and Cloud-to-cloud backup:
In this part, select one of the locations assigned to your GitProtect as storage.
See the following article to get more information about the storage:
This section allows you to customize the scheduler and decide how long your data should be stored.
See also how to define the scheduler and data retention:
