Query : Priority setting in calender schedule

The following has always worked for us in v5.1 MPx and v6.5.x....

Schedule Name    Calendar   Retention   Run Days                                 Start Time    End Time

WEEKLY_FULL      Yes         1 month     1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Saturdays  10:00am       Monday 08:00am

MONTHLY_FULL    Yes         1 year       Last Saturday                           10:00am      Monday 08:00am

We never normally have to use any include or exclude dates at all.

The trick is to get the start and end times of the run Window the same (to the minute).

When it comes to months with only four Saturdays, the job scheduler sees two possible "full" schedules with exactly the same run window, and so chooses the monthly schedule because it has the longest retention.

And, a nice (or bad) side affect, is that when a new client is added to a schedule or policy for the first time, NetBackup sees that it doesn't have a backup with the longest retention, and so runs the monthly schedule, thus ensuring that the first full backup is retained for a year - BUT if you're rejigging lots of clients across policies before the last Saturday, then this can mean that lots of clients will run monthly backups twice in a month, which is not good if you have limited resources - and in this case I would recommend applying specific exclude dates on the MONTHLY_FULL schedule (but of course not the last Saturday).