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Incremental Backups Schedule and Cleanup Schedule

Incremental Backups Schedule and Cleanup Schedule

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On2Air Backups creates incremental backups and saves multiple backup versions of your Airtable data in multiple folders in your storage drive.

Incremental backups are based on your backup schedule interval - monthly, weekly, hourly, continuous.

We backup all data from your Airtable base as a CSV file for each Table in your base for each incremental backup.

We backup all Attachments on the first backup, then backup New Attachments only on each subsequent backup. We do not back up all Attachments again on every single backup.

Backup Folder Structure for Incremental Backups

<BackupProjectName_#projectid> (ex: MyBackupFolder_111)

– <BaseName_#baseid> (ex: ProjectManagementBase_2323)

– attachments

– <TableName_#tableid> (ex: Contacts_4433)

– attachments files: <recordid><fieldid><attid>.<ext> (ex: rec23423_fld2323_att23423.jpg )

– data

– <YYYY-MM-DD_#backuphistoryid> (ex: 2024-04-10_2343 )

– table files: <TableName_#tableid>.<ext> (Ex: Contacts_4433.csv)

Cleanup Schedule

We clean up older backups in your storage drive on a regular basis.

The cleaning schedule is based on your backup schedule:

Monthly

Will remove anything older than the max cut-off date (default = 5 years)

Weekly

  • Will keep 3 months of weekly backups,
  • then revert to monthly
  • then delete anything older than max cut-off date (default = 5 years)

Daily

  • Will keep 30 days of daily backups
  • then 2 months of weekly
  • then revert to monthly
  • then delete anything older than max cut-off date (default = 5 years)

Example: if < 30 days, then daily, if > 30 days and < 3 months weekly, then < cutoff monthly

Continuous (previously known as Hourly)

  • Will keep 3 days of continuous backups
  • then revert to 27 days of daily
  • then revert to 2 months of weekly
  • then revert to monthly
  • then delete anything older than max cutoff date (default = 5 years)

Example: if < 3 days, every backup is performed, then if < 30 days, then daily backups, if > 30 days and < 3 months weekly, then < cutoff monthly