Optimization

Xopero ONE provides several features to help you optimize your backup tasks and configure them quickly and easily, depending on your needs. When creating a backup plan, you can customize the backup window, task balancing, storage location, bandwidth limits, and more.

Scheduler & Retention

This feature allows you to automate your backup schedule, set a backup window, and define the time zone for your backup plans.

Backup window

The backup window allows you to specify the hours during which backups are permitted to run. Any backup tasks scheduled outside of this window will not start, and tasks that exceed the allowed time frame will be stopped and marked as failed. This ensures that backups do not interfere with business hours or critical system operations, giving you full control over when your backup processes run.

Task balancing

Balance backup speed and CPU load — task balancing feature allows you to set a limit on the number of concurrent tasks or configure a delay between the start of successive tasks.

Task balancing can be configured in the Advanced settings of a backup plan.

Backup storage

In the Backup storage tab, you can view information about the assigned storages— Xopero ONE is a multi-storage system, allowing you to distribute backup data across multiple locations.

To optimize resource usage on the devices where data is stored, you can assign each backup plan to a different storage.

Backup scripts

Backup scripts are divided into three categories depending on the moment at which we want to execute them:

1. Before backup

2. When the data snapshot is completed

3. When the backup is finished

Shutdown

To shut down the computer after finishing the task, select the Post-task script, then choose the operating system and select Shutdown from the drop-down list. This script helps optimize backups by reducing energy consumption and freeing up system resources once the backup is complete, especially for machines that do not need to remain running outside working hours.

Bandwidth limit

With the bandwidth limit feature, you can control network usage by setting an internet speed limit— simply enter a value and select the unit (kB/s, MB/s, or GB/s).

S3 Buffer Settings

This setting applies to backups sent to S3-compatible storage. By default, the buffer size is 128 MiB, which allows transferring approximately 1,250 GiB of data. If your data exceeds this limit, you can adjust the buffer size accordingly.

Due to the system’s architectural design, this limit can be exceeded only by backup plans for the following resource types:

1. Disk image backups (endpoint/server).

2. File-level backups, including databases (endpoint/server).

3. Hyper-V virtual machine backups.

4. Microsoft 365 account backups.

5. VMware virtual machine backups.