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smith_jones
Level 6
9 years ago

Check the waiting time for backup

Hi, Can you please tell me what should I do if I want to increase the waiting time for backups? Suppose there is one drive and one backup running. Second backup job is in queue since there is o...
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  • Genericus's avatar
    Genericus
    9 years ago

    If the window is 10 - 14, that is 6 hours. if it runs at 10, the frequency will tell it to start after 8 hours, which would be 1800. Since that is past the end of the start window, it will not run.

    If it runs at 11, 11+8 = 19, will not run. since it is 8 hours not 1 day, next day will start at 10, not 11...

    If the frequency is set at 2 hours, it will run at 10, 12, 14. ( I do that to run repeating backups for my oracle archive logs )

     

    check the length of the window, make the frequency longer 

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smith_jones
Level 6
9 years ago

Genericus,

Say I set the frequency to 8 hours. But this is good when the queued backup fails i.e. was not able to run in the specified backup window.

But if that queued backup gets the resource say for example drive (for which it was queued) in the specified backup window then it will be successfully completed. And since the frequency is set to 8 hours, it will again run after 8 hours and again after 8 hours. So consuming space. And this will be on daily basis.

Your answer is providing solution in one way but raising a major concern in second way.