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Alex_Zn
Level 6
13 years ago

NetBackup schedules run manualy and protection of full backup

Hi! Have two questions 1. Manual backup I have policy which runs VM full backup each Sunday (backup window Sunday) and differential backups each day (backup window night). On the past week i ...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    13 years ago

    1. Create another schedule for Full - Call it something like Full-Manual with no backup window, so it will never try to run automatically.
    See this article about Frequency Based scheduling (be sure to download the pdf):
    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/netbackup-frequency-based-scheduling

    2. Not a good idea to keep weekly backup for one week only...
    Retention and recovery needs is determined by company policy and should never be a backup admin's decision.

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
13 years ago

1. Create another schedule for Full - Call it something like Full-Manual with no backup window, so it will never try to run automatically.
See this article about Frequency Based scheduling (be sure to download the pdf):
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/netbackup-frequency-based-scheduling

2. Not a good idea to keep weekly backup for one week only...
Retention and recovery needs is determined by company policy and should never be a backup admin's decision.