backup-service-settings-reference.md

title	Backup service settings reference
shortTitle	Backup settings
intro	Reference for all configurable options available in the Backup Service section of the {% data variables.enterprise.management_console %}.
versions	ghes >= 3.17
type	reference
topics	Backups

You can configure the following options in the "Backup Service" section of the {% data variables.enterprise.management_console %}.

Snapshot retention

• Number of snapshots: Sets how many backup snapshots to retain (default: 10). Older snapshots are automatically pruned after each successful backup.

Restore options

• Skip audit logs restore: Excludes audit logs during a restore.
• Restore Management Console password: If enabled, restores the root site admin password from snapshot data (default: true).

Performance tuning

• Process priority:

  • Nice: Sets the CPU scheduling priority (nice -n 19 by default).
  • Ionice: Sets the I/O scheduling priority (ionice -c 3 by default).

• Rsync compression: Uses compression for rsync transfers during backup and restore, reducing bandwidth usage.

MSSQL backup schedule

• MSSQL backup cadence: Sets the schedule for full, differential, and transaction log backups, in minutes (default: 10080,1440,15).

Backup content

• Include Pages: Adds {% data variables.product.prodname_pages %} data to snapshots.
• Skip search indices: Excludes search index data from snapshots.

Parallelization settings

• Enable parallel jobs: Allows multiple backup jobs to run concurrently.
• Max jobs: Limits the total number of parallel backup jobs.
• Max rsync jobs: Limits the number of parallel rsync jobs.
• Max system load: Sets a load limit to throttle parallel processing when needed.