02-04-2016 06:24 AM
How Backup Exec Compute Day Calendar In Monthly Job
Here is the Scenario :
I want to create full backup of my data every sunday of the month, the differential the remaining days in the selected week. The total per month is 4 full backup jobs and 4 differential backup jobs
Backup Exec offers the "Last week" in the monthly days schedule.
My question is: in some months, the first monday comes before the first sunday; how backup exec counts in such cases?
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02-05-2016 12:17 AM
Ok differential jobs are always linked to the last full no matter which week they fall in. As the links between differential (or incrementals) and the full have nothing to do with week ordering and ONLY relate to the last full.
02-04-2016 08:00 AM
The format of the BE calendar on my test server shows Sunday as 1st day of week.
If you click the yello BE button and then choose Configuration and Settings --> Job Defaults --> Schedule
and then click the Calndar button does it show the same for you as that may be an indicator that day 1 of week is the Sunday
As an aside some months in the year could have 5 sundays.. how are you thinking of handling that with your rotation?
02-04-2016 08:11 AM
OK the operating system settings determine the calendar layout inside the BE console as I just used "Control Panel" --> "Clock, Language and Region" --> "Change date, time of number formats" to set which days is First day of week and teh closed and re-opene dthe BE console and teh clandar layout within BE has changed.
As such we probably use the same settings to decide the weekly schedule.
02-04-2016 07:44 PM
You should not be using the monthly recurrance pattern. You should be using the weekly recurrance pattern for your full backups and the daily recurrance pattern for your incremental backups.
02-04-2016 11:31 PM
Thank You Colin,
For example, at the end of this month (February 2016), 4th Sunday will be on February 28 (Full Backup), on Monday will be February 29 (differential Backup). From Tuesday March 1 till Saturday March 5: these days will be added to diffential job started on Monday february 29 ?
02-04-2016 11:36 PM
I'm using selected day of a month; kindly refer to the attached file
02-05-2016 12:17 AM
Ok differential jobs are always linked to the last full no matter which week they fall in. As the links between differential (or incrementals) and the full have nothing to do with week ordering and ONLY relate to the last full.
02-05-2016 05:12 AM
Thank you very much Colin.
you saved me