Calendar Based Schedules - Same Date and Same Start Time - Other Schedules Still Run
- 7 years ago
Hi RLeon,
I think I have the answer for you, and it doesn't involve having to change the Start Windows, only the days you have selected. We do something very similar to what you are trying to do, so here are our schedules showing the Include Days which is what you need to tweak (including screenshots):
- Daily: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday (Note - NOT Friday)
- Weekly: Every Friday except for the Last Friday of the month
- Monthly: Last Friday of every month
So, by doing this you have the daily/weekly/monthly backup running only on the day they they are supposed to, with no chance of two backups on the same day. One other important thing to note is that we do an "Accelerator forced rescan" on the Monthly backup. This is recommended in the doco. It basically reset your CBT, and does a full re-read of all the data, not just skipping over what it already knows about - so it will make the Monthly backup run a bit longer but worth doing and the Monthly is the perfect time to do it. This is on the Attributes tab as shown below:
Hope this helps,
Steve
- 7 years ago
why don't you use the "Exclude" tab for selecting days when a backup policy should not run?
like for daily, exclude Fridays and month ends. for weekly, exclude month ends.
but here's the trick, if their month end is on month end (not 1st of every month), they could use the "Include" tab to specify month ends only to ensure month ends runs on month ends.