backupExec2012 - Weekly Full Backups Fifth Friday

[LuigiL]

Hello,

We just migrated from BE 2010 to BE 2012, but I have a problem when configuring full backups every friday on a different tape. So I have 5 Full Bck jobs on 1st, 2nd ,3rd , 4th and last friday for a robot library. But some month the last friday is also the 4th friday, thus superseeded jobs.  Can somebody provide me a solution, how to solve the 5th friday (existed in BE2010) but doesn't exists in BE 2012?

Tnx

Luigi

[Colin_Weaver]

BE has a hidden rule such that if there is more than 1 stage in a job definiton that starts at the same time, the stage with this least frequent repeat interval will run.

So in your instance you create a weekly job stage to run at (for example) 20:00 on a Friday. Then you just need a monthly stage to run also on a Friday at 20:00. When the monthly and weekly clash, the monthly will run because of the hidden rule and it being less freqeuent. Note I am not 100% sure how the monthly handles your 5 week/4week description as I don't have the 2012 scheduler to look at.

[LuigiL]

Hello,

Thnakyou for your fast reply , see hereby 2 printscreens of the jobs + calender for next July. Maybe this give you more details about the scheduler.

tnx

[SuperBrain · Accepted solution]

You may just need to tweak the 4th Friday job to look like this :

i.e. Add a full backup stage to the 4th Friday backup job and schedule it to run on Last Friday of every 1 month.

Upon conflicting schedule, the Last Friday Stage job should run.

[LuigiL]

Ok tnx, that has been configured like you suggested .See print screen attached

Tnx for the advice

L