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RHopkinson's avatar
RHopkinson
Level 2
12 years ago

How to schedule jobs that run at only certain times

Using BE 2012, I have a job that performs a full backup once a week.  I want to schedule incremental backups to run every hour between 7am and 7pm on weekdays (Mon-Fri).  How is that accomplished in ...
  • pkh's avatar
    12 years ago

    To run jobs within certain hours of the days, you can do either of the following.

    1) See my article below

    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/be-2012-run-job-certain-hourly-intervals-between-certain-hours-day

    2) Schedule a series of daily jobs.

    Suppose you want to run the incremental jobs at hourly intervals starting from 9 a.m.  You create an incremental job and use the days recurrance schedule and schedule it for 9 a.m.  You then create another job with the days recurrance schedule and schedule it for 10 a.m.  You continue creating incremental jobs until you are done.