Article ID: kb00041Last Modified: 15-Oct-2026

Granular Backup For Monthly, Weekly and Daily Copies of Data On The Cloud Storage

Some of our customers need to keep yearly, monthly, and weekly backups that can be restored at any moment. We call it granular backup. Keeping backup data for a period of time might be a part of your corporate policy due to security or compliance reasons. Using the scheduling and purge features, you can set up a backup to run with the needed periodicity. With the purge feature, you can set up conditions for data deletion: the Age of version and Number of versions options allow you to regulate the age and number of file versions to keep or delete.

##Preparations for Granular Backup

Before you proceed with the following manual, you need to create a few buckets (containers, vaults, etc.) within your cloud storage account. You need one bucket per time period: year, month, week, day, etc. For example, if you need to keep yearly and daily backups, you will need two buckets. If you want to keep yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily backups, you will need four buckets.

Note: further in the article, we will use Amazon S3 as an example of a cloud storage service. Your cloud storage service might have a different UI or feature names.

There are two ways to create a new bucket:

  1. Manually in your cloud storage account.

Log in to your cloud storage account and create buckets.

Once all buckets are created, you can find them among the existing buckets when adding storage accounts in the Management Console.

  1. Through the Management Console.

Log in to your Managed Backup account. On the Storage > Storage accounts tab, click the “Add account” button. The first step requires specifying your cloud storage account credentials.

The second step gives you the “Create new bucket” option. Don’t forget to choose the right Region for your bucket.

Repeat this action several times, since you need to create different buckets. Each time specify the same cloud storage account credentials but set another bucket name. Once you’ve finished creating the buckets and adding accounts, it’s time to proceed with configuring the backup plans for each of them.

Creating Backup Plans For The Granular Backup

Specifying scheduling and purge options is enough for almost any backup, but when you need to keep long-term backups and short-term backups in one Amazon S3 account, you may face some issues. For example, you won’t be able to set purge to keep only the yearly version of the file while being able to delete the weekly version of the same file. Also, you may have too many copies of one file that will lead to unnecessary expenses.

Best practice:

  • for the daily backup set weekly purge
  • for the weekly backup - purge every month
  • for the monthly backup - purge every year
  • for the yearly backup - a minimum of 2 years and up to your requirements

Creating Backup Plan For Daily Backup

  1. Start the application console and click the “Files” to launch the Backup wizard.

  1. Select one of the previously created storage accounts.

  1. Proceed to the “Retention policy” step and set up purge options. All the previous steps can be configured according to your requirements.

  1. On the “Schedule” step, select the “Recurring” option.

  1. Select a backup schedule using the “Type” drop-down list. Specify other recurring backup options. Click “OK”.

  1. Further backup plan configuration depends on your business requirements. Proceed and finish the backup plan creation.

  2. Once you finish creating this backup plan, repeat all the actions listed above (from step 1 to step 6) to create backup plans for all the time periods you need, each time using another storage account. Specify appropriate purge and scheduling options.

Repeat these actions until you have backup plans with correct scheduling and purge specifications for all the time periods you require. You will be able to perform granular recovery to specified points in time. Your backups will be kept in different buckets of the same storage account in safety and will not be affected by one another.

Creating Remote Deploy Configuration

Use remote deploy configurations to automatically roll out your backup plans on several computers. Remote deploy allows creating a configuration with preconfigured backup plans and settings.

  1. Log in to the Management Console. Go to Computers > Remote Deploy and click the "Create new" button.

  1. Specify a configuration name and operating system type.

  1. Click "Add Backup Plan" -> "Backup Files Plan".

  1. Specify a backup plan name.

  1. Specify a backup source and the exclusions.

  1. Proceed to the "Retention policy" step and set up purge options. All the previous steps can be configured according to your requirements.

  1. Set schedule options.

  1. Complete the rest of the options and click the "Save" button.

  1. Repeat steps 3 - 8 to create backup plans for all the time periods you need, each time using another storage account. Specify appropriate purge and scheduling options.
  2. Click the "Save" button when all required backup plans are created.
  3. Once the configuration is saved, click the "Add Rule" button to create a deployment rule.

  1. Select the recently created configuration and specify deployment level (Company, User or Computer). Click the "Save" button.

  1. Check the deployment history on the "History" tab.

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