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How to Run Backup Plan?

Beyond Inbox facilitates you to run your configured backup plan. For running a backup plan, first you have to configure a profile to take backup. Once you have saved the backup plan you can run it any time. When you run the backup plan, it starts backup of the folder which you have configured while creating the backup plan.
To create the configuration for backup plan go to link : How to create IMAP Profile

Incremental backup

Incremental Backup- Beyond Inbox enhanced its backup feature to incremental backup. Incremental backup would save your time by not downloading already downloaded email again and again, when you run backup plan.

Incremental backup provides you following key features-
  1. When you run the backup plan first time , it will take Complete/ Full Backup of email from 31/12/2099 to 1/1/1970 date.
  2. While running the Full Backup Plan, if last time it was not completed successfully and next time when you run same backup plan, it will take Incremental Backup from the date where it was failed to take backup.
  3. If you want to take Full Backup next time then you can select the Run Full BackUp check box while running the backup plan.
  4. If backup plan status is 'Completed' successfully, then on running next time for same profile, it will perform Incremental Backup of email, it will download only new email as plan will run from 31/12/2099 to BackupTillDate (the date from where last backup finished).
  5. You can view summary of run backup plan from Show Report option from downloading window.
  6. You can view summary of failed backup plan from Failed Report option from downloading window.

Follow the given steps to run Backup Plan:
STEP:1
  1. Run Beyond Inbox as usual.
  2. Choose Back Up option from main screen of Beyond Inbox.
  3. It will open Backup Plan window.
  4. Here are two options to run saved backup plan(s)-
    • Choose a plan from Select Backup Plan list from Backup Plan window then select Run Backup Plan .
select backup plan to backup email

OR

choose backup plan to backup email
  1. Click on Manage Backup Plan it will open Manage Pre Planned Backup Profiles window.
  2. Select profile name form left hand side panel it shows complete information for that profile and enables the Run button.
  3. Click on Run button to run selected backup plan.

STEP:2
  1. It will start the progress bar showing the count of success, fail, identical & total downloaded email along with size of total download for all the folders.
  2. It will download the email in Data folder at the specified path.
  3. After completing download process, it will display the number of successfully downloaded, identical, failed and total number of email on progress bar and status bar.
status of backed up email messages

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