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Days to run backup
This part lets you decide which days you wish to have your backups run. If you’re going to use a daily backup interval, you can pick which days of the week you would like a daily backup to be performed. If your backup solution is a weekly one, pick which day of the week your server should perform backups. It is ideal if you pick a day that the server load is at its lowest, preferably a weekend. If your backup interval is set to monthly, pick which day of the month you would like backups to be performed. The day you pick will be 30 days from the last monthly backup performed.

Remount/unmount back up drives
This option allows your server to remount and unmount your backup drive every time it commits the backup routine. That means that your backup drive will remain unmounted just until the time has come to do the backups, only then will the server mount the drive, and start the backup. Once backups are done, the server will unmount the drive.

Bail out the drive
If you have selected the above option (Remount/Unmount backup drive) , then I recommend also enabling this option as well. If you do not enable this option, and your server cannot mount the backup drive, it will continue to try and mount the drive, eventually creating unnecessary load on your server. However, if you select this option, your server will bail out, and will stop trying to mount the backup drive, if it is unable to do so.

Incremental back up
Selecting this option will enable incremental backups, ensuring that only information that has been changed since the last backup will be added to the current backup, thus incrementing the backed up information. Keep in mind, no compression will apply to this backup method. It is also not compatible with remote ftp backups.

Back up accounts
This option basically allows accounts to enable or disable account backups. I recommend leaving it on the default option, which is enable .

Back up configuration files
If you wish to backup common configuration files i.e. httpd.conf, named.conf, you can enable this option. Otherwise, disable it if you do not wish to backup the configuration files. This option is enabled by default, I recommend leaving it enabled.

There are a lot more of configuring backup tips. Find it in the part 3.