A Backup Schedule defines the backup set type, time, time period allowed, and frequency of the backup job of a backup set.
Field |
Description |
Name |
Name of the backup schedule.
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Backup set type |
This is the type of backup to be done. This option will only be displayed for certain types of backup set, i.e. MS SQL Server Backup, MS Exchange Server Backup, MS Hyper-V Backup, Oracle Database Server Backup or VMware Backup.
- For MS SQL Server Backup - choices are Full (default), Differential, Incremental (only for VSS mode) or Transaction Log (only for ODBC mode).
- For MS Exchange Server Backup - choices are Database (default) or Log File.
- For MS Hyper-V Backup - choices are Full (default) or Incremental.
- For Oracle Database Server Backup - choices are Database (default) or Archived Log.
- For VMware Backup - choices are Full (default) or Incremental.
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Type |
Type of backup schedule, eg: Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Custom.
- Daily - time of the day or interval in minutes/hours when the backup job will run.
- Weekly - day of the week and time of the day or interval in minutes/hours when the backup job will run.
- Monthly - day of the month and the time on that day when the backup job will run.
- Custom - specific date and time when the backup job will run.
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Start backup |
Time when backup job will start. The scheduled backup can be set to start either:
- At a specific time. (default)
or
- Every, set interval in minutes or hours.
Minute interval: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 or 30 minutes.
Hourly interval: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 or 12 hours.
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Stop |
Time when backup job will stop. This only applies to schedules with start backup "at" and is not supported for periodic backup schedule (start backup "every"). The scheduled backup can be set to stop either:
- Until full backup is completed regardless of how much time it takes. (default)
or
- After the backup has started for the set time (1-24 hr) regardless if the backup is done.
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To configure a Daily backup schedule where backup job will run everyday at 8:00pm:
To configure a periodic backup schedule where backup job will run every hour daily: