St0r: schedules, backup windows, retention and quotas
For administrators and senior technicians who tune backups in St0r: UrBackup's backup intervals and their defaults, backup window syntax, retention maximums and minimums, what nightly and emergency cleanup delete, per-endpoint quotas, Backup Defaults and retention floors, backup paths and exclusion patterns, image volumes, and why an endpoint shows Disabled instead of Failed.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 45 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- St0r · open source
Skills you'll practise
- Read and set incremental and full intervals, using UrBackup's defaults as the starting point
- Write and interpret backup windows, and predict what happens to backups started outside or running past them
- Set retention maximums and minimums so cleanup can work, and predict what nightly and emergency cleanup will delete
- Write exclusion patterns and default directories in UrBackup's syntax
- Choose between Backup Defaults and per-endpoint settings, and explain Disabled versus Failed endpoint status
Course outline
- 1.St0r: schedules, backup windows, retention and quotasVideo · 2 min
- 2.Intervals and backup windowsLesson · 14 min
- 3.Retention, cleanup and quotasLesson · 16 min
- 4.What gets backed up: paths, exclusions and imagesLesson · 15 min
- 5.St0r: schedules, backup windows, retention and quotas: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
- 6.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- St0r README: how it works, requirements, what the installer changes, known limitations
- St0r screenshot gallery (descriptions of each screen and settings tab)
- St0r CHANGELOG (release history 3.0.0 to 3.2.118)
- St0r docs: UrBackup Server API reference used by St0r (client settings keys)
- St0r walkthrough transcript
- MSP Zero: St0r tool page (first deployment, know before you deploy)
- UrBackup Server administration manual (client settings, backup windows, exclusions, internet clients, cleanup, ports)
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