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NetBackup and Monthly backups...
A question to all the NetBackup Gurus....
I want to schedule a policy with only monthly backups on it. I want it to run on the last Friday, Saturday and Sunday of every month. Am I correct in assuming that if I just select the last Friday of the month in the "Calendar Schedule / Recurring Week Days" window coupled with a "Start Window" of Friday @ 6:00 PM to Monday @ 6:00 AM, that it will use the ENTIRE weekend to backup and not just Friday?
- Check the following extract from "NetBackup Admin Guide":
"... Backup frequency determines schedule priority
If more than one automatic schedule is due for a client within a policy, the backup frequency determines the schedule that NetBackup uses:
■ Jobs from the schedule with the lower frequency (longer period between backups) always have higher priority. For example, a schedule with a backup frequency of one year has priority over a schedule with a backup frequency of one month.
■ If NetBackup encounters a backup policy with two schedules (one full, one incremental) that are each due to run:
■ if each is within the defined time window, and
■ if each is configured with the same frequency value,
the schedule that is first alphabetically runs first.
For example, NetBackup prioritizes the following three schedules in the following order:
1 monthly_full (frequency is one month)
2 weekly_full (frequency is two weeks)
3 daily_incremental (frequency is one week)
If all three schedules are due for a client, NetBackup adds the job for the monthly full to the worklist and skips the other two. ....."
So if your weekly Fulls run each week & your monthly Fulls once a month (yearlys once a year etc) then they should run as you are expecting: yearlys priority over monthlys, monthlys priority over weeklys.
That's how ours are set up & it does work!
