About manual backups

The manual backup lets the administrator initiate a full backup or incremental backup that is set up in the policy manager.

The manual backup option can be useful for the following situations:

To test a configuration
When workstations miss their regular backups
Before installing new software (to preserve the old configuration)
To preserve records before a special event such as when companies split or merge

In some cases, it may be useful to create a policy and schedule that you use only for manual backups. Create a manual backup policy by defining a single schedule that does not have a defined backup window (and therefore never executes automatically).