Schedule Types - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User's Manual & Technical Reference

Modifying a custom schedule
1.
Select the Schedule property page of a job.
2. Select Run repeatedly as the Schedule type.
3.
Select the start time and date of the job. This indicates when the schedule, as a whole, should start.
The first scheduled event will start at this time.
4.
Select Custom rotation as the Rotation type.
5. Select the Type of fixed rotation. Suggestion: use the Fixed by day of week default.
6.
Click Minute. If you want to schedule jobs on certain minutes select Enable scheduling by minute.
Set the number of minutes apart you want this schedule to run. Then select the Type of backup to
use at this interval. (Suggestion: use scheduling by minute very sparingly. Many devices may take
several minutes to properly mount their media. This may cause unintended behavior.) Select the
number of rotation sets. Skip the next set to use. (This field stores the number that will be used in
naming the tape rotation the next time the job is run.)
7. Repeat step six for each of the intervals: Hour, Day, Week, Month, and Year.
8.
Edit the job settings for any other calendar days by doing one of the following:
a. Right-click the calendar and select the appropriate backup type from the shortcut menu
b. Navigate to the day in the calendar and select the backup type by typing its shortcut key
9. Apply the changes to the job.
NOTE:
A schedule interval overrides any previous schedule interval.
For example, suppose you want to create a job that runs every hour as a differential backup, and then run a
full backup at the end of every day. First, set the job to start at midnight of the coming evening. Make sure that
each of the intervals other than Hour and Day is disabled. On the Hour interval, enable the interval, give it a
value of 1, set the Backup type to differential, and the Number of rotation sets to twenty-three. Then select the
Day interval and set the Backup type to full and the Number of rotation sets to seven. Your first rotation will
be the Day rotation since Day takes precedence over all previous intervals (Minute and Hour.)
CAUTION:
Jobs set up with this schedule type run automatically. If you do not set up media rotation with this schedule,
Data Protector Express may overwrite any media in the backup devices. Setting up a media rotation
ensures that Data Protector Express will prompt you for the correct media based on the rotation type.

Schedule Types

Not scheduled
Run now Run the job as soon as soon as you finish setting it up.
Run on specific day
Data Protector Express service is running.
Run on selected days
at the specified time, with no rotation.
Run repeatedly
rotation is optional.
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Backup Jobs
Run a job manually any time you start it from Data Protector Express.
Run the job only at the scheduled time so long as Data Protector Express or the
Run the job automatically only on those days that you select on the calendar
Run the job automatically at a custom schedule based on your selections. Media