Best practices for cloud backups

Following is a list of recommended best practices for cloud backup usage.

For Systems Integrators, it can be difficult to keep track of the last known good backup for a particular customer. A best practice is to always use the Cloud Backup Service to safely store the latest backups to the cloud. This practice makes the same set of backups, including the last known good backup, available to the SIs.
For an established fully configured JACE station, a 30 or 90 day backup is sufficient to retain configuration data.
Always remove the local Backup Service when installing the Cloud Backup Service. The reason for this is that station operation depends upon interacting with a single backup service. The Cloud Backup Service provides all of the behavior of the local Backup Service, including local and provisioned backups, in addition to backing up to the Niagara Cloud. Leaving the local Backup Service in place when installing the Cloud Backup Service may cause confusion for users and yield unintended results when accessing and performing backups.
Using the randomized Trigger Mode is recommended. The randomizer selects a random time for the first interval of the backup to occur. After the first backup invoked by the Trigger Mode, the subsequent backups will be triggered exactly at the set interval (7, 30 or 90) days later, at the same randomized time.