LeoCore Backup · Documentation
Guides
Short, practical pages. If something here is wrong or missing, tell us and we will fix it.
Guides
User guide
Start here. From nothing installed to a scheduled, verified, off-site backup: connecting each engine, choosing destinations, schedules, retention, restore drills and restoring.
Read →How to use LeoCore
The complete reference: every screen, setting and feature — destinations, folder layouts, schedules, retention, encryption, restore drills, point-in-time and table recovery, finding backups after a rebuild, the estate, evidence reports, the command line and Rescue.
Read →FAQ
The questions we are actually asked — supported databases and Windows versions, encryption and where your data goes, seats and moving a licence, restores, updates, billing and refunds.
Read →Installing & the service
What the installer puts on the machine, the LeoCoreAgent service and which account to run it under, unattended and Server Core installs, upgrading and uninstalling.
LeoCore Rescue
The free standalone tool for the worst day: one executable that opens a LeoCore archive on a machine that has never had LeoCore, or .NET, installed. Extract, verify, work out what is restorable in a folder with no catalogue, and recover the archive password.
Read →Changelog
Every release, the published SHA-256 of each package, and how signed updates are delivered.
Read →Previous versions
The four most recent releases, with their checksums — for reproducing a fault on the version a customer is running, matching what is deployed across a fleet, or rolling back. Your licence key works with all of them.
Read →Files and folders
Folders, files and shares, open files through shadow copies, differentials, the ransomware warning, and restoring with NTFS permissions.
Read →Connecting databases
SQL Server, Azure SQL, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Firebird, Amazon RDS — including why Firebird databases are added by path.
Read →Schedules & retention
Full, differential and log cadences, what each one buys you, and why retention never deletes a backup another one still needs.
Read →Destinations
All thirteen, plus immutable storage with S3 Object Lock and Azure immutable blobs — the part that actually resists ransomware.
Read →Restoring & drills
Full restore, point-in-time recovery, restore-as-new, and the scheduled drill that proves your backups restore rather than assuming it.
Read →Licensing
Activation, offline activation for an air-gapped server, moving a licence to replacement hardware, and what happens if one lapses.
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