Hiya,
Just a quick one to do with application backup scheduling. Currently we 1 policy (for this example a sql policy) with a mon-thu scheudule, a schedule that does weekly backups (on up to 1st 4 fridays in the month) and a schedule that has monthly backups on the last friday of the month. Daily backups have 1 week retention, weekly backups set for 1 month retention and monthly backups setup for yearly retention. (in effect we have 3 automatic backup schedules and 3 application backup schedules)
We have setup application backups fine for mon-thu with no problems but the problem is with the weekly and monthly backups as they run during the same time on a Friday. It does not always start the correct application backup due to this and thus have a backup failure due to no available media on occasions.
Am i correct in thinking that the only solution is to have a seperate policy? My only problem with this is the extra administration and also during a month with only 4 Fridays that i would have both policies running at the same time (if in same policy it would only run the 1 due to just running most least recently run) unless i manually excluded a date for it.
Anyone come across these problems before and found a way round them? Or am i just stuck with the 2 policies and manually excluding dates where weekly/monthly backups clash?
Cheers,
Nick
