How can I alternate full and incremental backups?

[sclind]

Currently I have a policy where I run a full backup three days a week and an incremental four days a week (the days are hardcoded in the schedules).

I tried setting up a test policy with the full backup to run every 2 days at 10 am.  And then I also defined a incremental schedule to run every 2 days at 10 am.   When the policy ran for the first time (yesterday) it ran the full backup (as expected).

I hoped to see that the incremental schedule would have then run today but it didnt.

Anyone have any ideas on how to alternate full and incrementals every other day?

[revarooo]

The solution should really have been given to those who took time to help you, not to yourself.
I did suggest Calendar based scheduling higher up, as did Riaan

revarooo Symantec Employee

14 Feb 2015 : Link

Yeah but what happens if a resource is down on a specific day that a full or inc is supposed to run - it will run the next day - which you don't want!

Use Calendar based scheduling and pick the days you want them to run. You can set a full to run on Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun on week 1 then on week 2 Tue, Thu, Sat etc

Or script it - which is harder to do

[sclind]

Ok. I have changed it.

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