# Create Backup Server Point
**Backup Server Point** is a full or partial backup of your server data at a specific point in time. Creating and managing Backup Server Points is extremely important to ensure that your data is always safe and can be restored when needed.
**Backup Center** provides you with two flexible ways to create Backup Server Points:
1. Create Backup Server Point according to Backup Policy
2. Create Backup Server Point manually by executing "Backup Now"
## Create Backup Server Point automatically according to Backup Policy
1. **Create Backup Plan (Backup Server):** If you don't have one, you need to create a new Backup Server to set up backup rules.
2. **Create Backup Policy:** In Backup Server, you create and associate a Backup Policy to meet different backup needs. For example, the Policy is set up as follows:
* Launch time **16:00**
* Backup frequency is **every 4 hours** , the system will create a backup.
* The gap between 2 Full Backups will be **4 Incremental Backups.**
* The system keeps **the 2 most recent Full Backups.**
3. **The system will automatically perform:** The system will automatically create Backup Server Point according to the set schedule as follows:
* At **16:00** of the first launch, the system will create a backup server point **(Full version)** .
* The next 4 hours at **20:00, 00:00, 04:00 and 08:00** (next day) will create a backup server point **(Incremental version).**
* In the next 4 hours at 12:00, the system will create a backup server point **(Full version).**
* Every 4 hours, the system will create server point backups (Incremental versions) until there are 4 Incremental versions, then the next time will be the server point backup (Full version).
* After creating 3 backup server points (Full version), the system will delete the first backup server point (Full version), and the next 4 consecutive backup server points (Incremental version).
## Create Backup Server Point manually by executing "Backup Now"
The Backup Now feature allows you to perform an immediate data backup session by clicking a "Backup Now" button for the Backup Server or Server you select. Often, users may need to perform a periodic backup, but sometimes it is also necessary to perform an immediate backup session to protect important data at that time.
**Benefits of Instant Data Backup:**
* **Flexibility and Urgency:** Instant data backup allows you to perform a backup whenever you feel the need, instead of having to wait for a scheduled backup. This is useful in an emergency situation or when you want to protect your data immediately before a potential incident.
* **Protect Important Data in the Short Term:** If you only need to back up a small section or a specific project, backing up immediately will help you protect the important data you've just worked on.
* **Fast Recovery:** When you need to recover data, you'll have the most recent backup.
**Detailed instructions:**
### Method 1: Backup now from Backup Server
1. Access the Backup Server management page here:
2. Select the Backup Server to perform Backup Now.
3. Find and click "Backup Now" as shown below
**Note:**
* When backing up now, the server point backups will be full backups.
* The created server point backups will be of Manual type and will not be affected by backup policy. Users need to actively delete them when not needed.
### Method 2: Backup now from Server
1. Access the Server management page here:
2. Select the Server to perform Backup Now.
3. Find and click "Backup Now" as shown below.
**Note:**
* If the selected Server is not linked to any Backup Server, the system will automatically create a Backup Server with default Backup Policy and Backup Location, and link to this Server, then proceed to create the corresponding server backup point.
* When backing up now, the server point backups will be full backups.
* The created server point backups will be of Manual type and will not be affected by backup policy. Users need to actively delete them when not needed.
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