Scheduling - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 SERVER FOR LINUX - UPDATE 3 User Manual

5 Scheduling

Acronis scheduler helps the administrator adapt backup plans to the company's daily routine and
each employee's work style. The plans' tasks will be launched systematically keeping the critical data
safely protected.
The scheduler uses local time of the machine the backup plan exists on. Before creating a schedule,
be sure the machine's date and time settings are correct.
Schedule
To define when a task has to be executed, you need to specify an event or multiple events. The task
will be launched as soon as any of the events occurs. The table below lists the events available under
Linux operating system.
Time: Daily, Weekly, Monthly
Time passed since the last successful backup has completed
(specify the length of time)
System startup
Condition
For backup operations only, you can specify a condition or multiple conditions in addition to the
events. Once any of the events occurs, the scheduler checks the condition and runs the task if the
condition is met. With multiple conditions, all of them must be met simultaneously to enable task
execution. The table below lists the conditions available under Linux operating system.
Location's host is available
The task run time is within the specified time interval
The specified period of time has passed since the last successful backup completed
The scheduler behavior, in case the event occurs but the condition (or any of multiple conditions) is
not met is defined by the Task start conditions (p. 58) backup option.
What-ifs

What if an event occurs (and a condition, if any, is met) while the previous task run has not
completed?
The event will be ignored.
 What if an event occurs while the scheduler is waiting for the condition required by the
previous event?
The event will be ignored.

What if the condition is not met for a very long time?
If delaying a backup is getting risky, you can force the condition (tell the users to log off) or run
the task manually. To automatically handle this situation, you can set the time interval after
which the task will run regardless of the condition.
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Events
Condition: run the task only if
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