The scheduler is the part of BackupKit you set up once and stop thinking about. A short wizard turns a folder you care about into a backup that runs on its own — with explicit, predictable rules for retention, missed runs, and what happens when your PC is asleep at 2 AM.
Three steps to a running backup
The wizard takes you from "I have files I care about" to "they're backed up on a schedule" in under a minute.
Pick files or folders from your PC, a NAS, or any connected cloud — then choose where they go.
Schedule, compression, encryption, missed-run policy, retention, and notifications — one panel, sensible defaults.
Name the job and save. The next run time and status appear on the dashboard immediately.
Schedules that fit your workflow
From "every night at 2 AM" to "every six hours" to "only when I push the button" — pick what fits and BackupKit handles the timer.
- Daily: at a time you choose, every day
- Weekly: specific days (e.g. Mon/Wed/Fri)
- Custom intervals: every N hours, days, or weeks
- Manual only: triggered from the app, on your schedule
When a run is missed
Real PCs sleep, travel, and go offline. If a backup was due while yours was asleep, you decide what happens:
- Run immediately when possible: catch up as soon as BackupKit starts or the scheduler resumes, so the backup isn't skipped
- Skip this run: wait until the next scheduled time; missed backups are ignored
- Ask before running missed jobs: prompt with a dialog and let you decide, which is what you want when a backup is large or time-sensitive
Retention — keep backups from piling up
Stop old backups from eating your disk or cloud quota. Auto-cleanup runs by whichever rule you pick:
- By age: keep the last N days' worth
- By count: keep the most recent N versions
- Forever: skip cleanup entirely if that's what you want
Health dashboard & run history
Open BackupKit and see every job's status in one scroll. Drill into any job for per-run duration, transferred size, and detailed logs when something goes sideways.
- Green: last run succeeded, next run on schedule
- Yellow: last run was delayed, retried, or partial
- Red: last run failed; the log explains why
Fine-grained control when you need it
Every run recorded — what was snapshotted, what transferred, what failed. Filter to a single job when you're diagnosing one, or read the whole history at once.
Pause any job without losing its configuration. Resume when ready — BackupKit picks up where it left off.
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