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AlGon's avatar
AlGon
Level 6
15 years ago

Frequency Schedule

Hi I'm trying to understand when best to use a frequency based schedule and why.  What advantages does a frequency based schedule have over a calendar schedule.  Other than you can set a frequ...
  • Andy_Welburn's avatar
    15 years ago
    there's any real reason we mainly use frequency based backups, per se. We could probably achieve exactly what we are now with either frequency or calendar based schedules.

    There's a little bit of extra work involved in initially setting up calendar based (there is an extra tab after-all !! ) and possibly a few extra things to consider - e.g. schedules spanning midnight (our backup window is mainly 6:00pm to 6:00am).

    Essentially, it was how we were told to do it when we first implemented NetBackup back in the 4.5 days i.e. when we didn't know any better  ;-) & we're now very comfortable with the way things are currently running.