Account Settings
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The Account Settings page allows you to configure default backup settings for repositories linked to your GitHub account.
To access and modify account settings, navigate to the Account Settings page from the sidebar. Here, you can set the default backup schedule, storage location, retention policy, and other settings for all repositories associated with your GitHub account. The settings also affect new repositories added to your account.
You can configure the following settings:
Determines the timezone used for scheduling backups.
The selected timezone applies to all existing repositories and new ones added under the account.
Sets the default backup schedule for new repositories.
Specifies the default storage location for backup archives for new repositories.
You can choose Cloudback-managed storage or a custom storage created by the user.
Defines how long backup archives of new repositories are retained before being deleted.
Example: Last 30 days.
Determines how archived repositories are treated in Cloudback.
Options:
Hide from dashboard and skip backup (default).
Display on dashboard and backup.
Allows automatic backup activation for new repositories based on naming patterns.
Supports wildcard characters (*) to include multiple repositories.
Wildcard characters:
* - zero or more characters
? - exactly one character
, - specify multiple queries separated by a comma
Considering the selected account has 4 repositories awesome, awesome-repos, books and static-website-example, the given patterns will match the following repositories:
* - matches all repositories
awe* - matches awesome and awesome-repos
awe*,book - matches awesome, awesome-repos and book
*b* - matches book and static-website-example
All settings in the Account Settings page are applied to the selected GitHub account. The timezone is applied to all existing repositories and the new ones. The other settings will be applied to all new repositories of the account selected above. If you want to apply settings to already existing repositories, you can use the page.
Options include predefined schedules such as Daily at 1 PM, and schedules created by the user. For more information, see .
Repository name pattern accepts characters and a comma character to join multiple queries.
