Can someone explain how to run backups sequentially?

[JoeyJoeJoe]

I tried doing this using Policies and Templates, but when I tried creating a policy with three templates, it created nine jobs! I've seen other posts on this board where five templates make 25 jobs, six make 36, etc. (??)

I have a pretty simple environment where I need to back up SQL, Exchange and user data and all I want to do is have the Exchange job complete, then the SQL job and then the user data job, in that order.

Thanks,
Joe

[Hywel_Mallett]

What you're doing sounds reasonable.

If you have a policy with 3 templates, applied to 3 selection lists, you can get 9 jobs. While it might create plenty of jobs, (I think) it's still simpler than creating jobs manually.

If you want the jobs to start in a particular order, then supposing the three jobs start at the same time, you can change the priority of each job, say: Exchange=Highest; SQL=High; User Data=Normal.