Scheduling database backups and cleanups for the Dynamic Log Book plugin - Dynamic Log Book 4.1

To protect your data, it is important to schedule regular database backups. Also, to avoid growing beyond its capacity, you must regularly clean up your database to remove old data.

1. From the Config Tool home page, open the Plugins task.
2. Select the Dynamic Log Book plugin role from the entity browser.
3. On the Resources tab, click Backup/Restore ().
   The Backup/Restore dialog box opens.
4. In the Backup folder field, enter the filepath of the folder where you want to store your backup files.
5. To reduce the size of backup files, turn on the Compress backup file option.
6. To create backups on a schedule, do the following:
   1. Turn on the Enable automatic backup option.
   2. In the Every field, enter the day and time that you want to create a backup.
   3. In the Keep field, enter the number of backup files that you want to save.
   4. Click OK.
7. Click Cleanup ().
   The Database cleanup dialog box opens.

   
8. Configure the following:

   Keep data

   Select the frequency that you want to clean your database.

   Indefinitely

   Retains your data for an indefinite period of time.

   For specified number of days

   Retains your data for the selected number of days.

   Clean each

   Select the days when you want to clean your database and enter the time of day when you want to clean your database.

9. Click OK.
10. Click Apply.