Add Custom Backup Profiles

Cove Data Protection (Cove) has a default Backup Profile (), which can be used by any Cove customer. However, it is also possible to create custom Profiles, which allow for more granular configuration.

Custom Backup Profiles can be created in one of two ways:

Once the custom Profile has been created and configured, you can assign the Profile to Device(s).

From New

  1. Log in to the Management Console under a SuperUser or Administrator account
  2. Select Profiles from the vertical menu

  3. Click Create profile

  4. Select the customer using the dropdown

  5. Give the profile a recognizable name
  6. Configure the Profile settings per tab:
    1. Data Sources
    2. LocalSpeedVault
    3. Performance and Limits
    4. Advanced Settings
  7. Save the Profile

Creating a separate backup profile for each operating system allows you to specify correct file paths depending on the operating system's file structure, and configure settings for data sources that are only available on certain operating systems

From A Copy

If you have an existing profile which you need to duplicate, this can be done by:

  1. Log in to the Management Console under a SuperUser or Administrator account
  2. Select Profiles from the vertical menu on the left-hand side of the page

  3. Choose the Customer the Profile belongs to from the dropdown

  4. Find the Profile you need to copy and click the three vertical dots to open the action menu and click Copy Profile

  5. Select the customer using the dropdown

  6. Give the profile a recognizable name
  7. Configure the Profile settings per tab:
    1. Data Sources
    2. LocalSpeedVault
    3. Performance and Limits
    4. Advanced Settings
  8. Save the Profile

Creating a separate backup profile for each operating system allows you to specify correct file paths depending on the operating system's file structure, and configure settings for data sources that are only available on certain operating systems

Data Sources

The Data Sources tab allows you to configure backups for each data source.

  1. In the Data Sources tab you can automatically back up all data sources by toggling the switch ON at the top of the window

    Or select each data source to configure the settings one at a time:
    • Files & Folders (Workstations)
    • Files & Folders (Servers)
    • System State
    • Network Shares
    • MS SQL
    • Exchange
    • VMWare
    • SharePoint
    • Hyper-V
    • MySQL
  2. Select the Backup Policy to use for this data source from:
    • Backup - covering both the backup schedule and the backup selection, this includes the data source in the backup
      This is unavailable for data sources that require additional access credentials:
      • Network Shares
      • VMware
      • MySQL

      This selection overwrites local configuration

    • No backup - this excludes the data source from backup

      This selection overwrites local configuration

    • Keep local settings - this mixed option allows you to retain the locally configured backup selection, but automate the backup schedule

      This selection overwrites local schedule configuration only

  3. Configure the Backup Schedule
    1. Select the Frequency from one of the following:
      • Every 24 hours
      • Every 12 hours
      • Every 6 hours
      • Every 4 hours
      • Every 2 hours
      • Every 1 hour
      • Every 30 minutes
      • Every 15 minutes
    2. Choose a start time for the schedule.

      Start Times can only be provided for the 24 hour, 12 hour and 6 hour frequencies

      Backups will start within 60 minutes of this start time to avoid backups starting for multiple devices at the same time

    3. If required, select the Do not start backup during working hours option to stop backups from being started during your working day.

      This option is not available if using a 24 hour frequency

      When selected you will be required to set your working hours and days of the week

  4. Enable Fail backup if no data source is selected if required
    This is unavailable for the following data sources:
    • Files and Folders (Workstations)
    • Files and Folders (Servers)
    • System State
    • Network Shares
    • VMware
    • HyperV
    • MySQL
  5. Select Allow end user to add additional file locations to allow users to add new paths to the existing data source locations for backup if required.
    This is unavailable for the following data sources:
    • System State
    • Network Shares
    • MS SQL
    • Exchange
    • VMware
    • SharePoint
    • Hyper-V
    • MySQL
  6. Provide the Backup file locations path to a local volume where files for backup are located (optional), e.g.
    • Windows - C:\Users\
    • macOS - /Users/
    • Linux - /Home/
    This is unavailable for the following data sources:
    • System State
    • Network Shares
    • MS SQL
    • Exchange
    • VMware
    • SharePoint
    • Hyper-V
    • MySQL
  7. Enter any file types or locations to be excluded from the backup to Filters and Exclusions.

    Predefined filters are entered here by default but can be changed. For examples of file type exclusions and suggested additional filters, see Backup Filters and Exclusions

    This is unavailable for the following data sources:
    • System State
    • Network Shares
    • VMware
    • SharePoint
    • Hyper-V
    • MySQL

LocalSpeedVault

You can configure the LocalSpeedVault via a Backup Profile from the LocalSpeedVault tab:

  1. Navigate to the LocalSpeedVault tab
  2. Enable LocalSpeedVault by switching the toggle ON
  3. Enter the path to a local volume where a local encrypted copy of your backup will be stored into the Vault Location box
  4. Choose the location from:
    1. Local Drive
    2. Network Drive - If selecting Network Drive, you must provide the login credentials for the NAS device

Performance and Limits

The settings configured in the Profiles > Performance and Limits tab override corresponding settings in Classic Policies.

You can configure the Backup System's performance, storage limits and windows backup exclusions from the Performance and Limits tab.

  1. Navigate to the Performance and Limits tab
  2. Enable Limit backup bandwidth to restrict the download and upload speed of backups
  3. Set the times to start and end limiting and the days of the week to apply bandwidth limiting on
  4. Set the maximum download speed in MBit/s in the Limit backup download speed field
  5. Set the maximum upload speed in MBit/s in the Limit backup upload speed field
  6. Limit the total maximum selection size in GB
  7. Limit the maximum used storage in GB
  8. Enable Ignore FilesNotToBackup registry key if required

    Enabling this will force the Backup Manager to ignore the Microsoft 'FilesNotToBackup' registry key.

Advanced Settings

The Advances Settings tab allows you to configure the language of the Backup Manager software, the local directory used for temporary files and software updates.

  1. Navigate to the Advanced Settings tab
  2. Select the Language the Backup Manager is displayed in.
    3. The Backup Manager can be used in any of these 9 languages:
    • English
    • Dutch
    • Russian
    • German
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Portuguese
    • Norwegian
    • Italian
  3. Provide the path to the location for Temporary Files
  4. Configure Backup Manager auto updates to install either:
    1. As soon as available
    2. On Saturdays only
  5. Click Save