OneDrive Personal

Adding OneDrive Personal storage as a backup destination

To send backups to OneDrive storage, you first need to set up a destination in the “Storages” page:

1. Go to the “Storages” page and click “Add Storage” and select OneDrive Personal as the storage destination:

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2. In the “New OneDrive Settings” pop-up window, click Authorize with Windows Live button:

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3. Grant SqlBak access to OneDrive Personal storage:

Grant SqlBak access to OneDrive storage

4. Once configured, click “Test” to verify the connection. If successful, click “Save & Close” to apply your settings.

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These are the basic settings required to configure Google Drive storage as a backup destination.

Advanced OneDrive Personal Settings (Optional)

You can further customize your backup storage with the following options:

  • Download Parallel Threads – Increase the number of threads to boost download performance, especially for large files.

  • Validate file checksum after transfer – Verifies data integrity by checking the file checksum after transfer completion.

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Steps to add OneDrive Personal storage to a backup job:

  1. Return to the Dashboard page.

  2. Open the backup job you want to modify (or create a new one), and click the “Edit” button.

  3. Navigate to the Storage Destination section.

  4. Click “Add Backup Storage” button.

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Add storage destination

5. Select OneDrive Personal storage as the destination.

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6. In the configuration window, specify the following:

    • Autodelete old backups after – Define a retention period for automatically deleting old backups.

    • Enable minimum backups – Set the minimum number of backups to retain, even if they exceed the defined retention period.

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Optional settings:

  • Store the following backup types (Full, Diff, T-Log) – Choose which backup types to store in this destination.

  • Auto delete Differential Backups after – Define a retention period specifically for differential backups.

  • Auto delete T-Log Backups after – Define a retention period specifically for transaction log backups.

  • Enable minimum Differential or T-Log backups – Set the minimum number of differential or T-Log backups to keep, even if older than the retention limit.

  • Emergency storage – Use this option to designate Azure Blob as an emergency/failover destination in case the primary backup storage becomes unavailable.

OneDrive retention options