HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User Manual page 111

custom schedule, try reviewing a default schedule—and using it as a model—rather than creating an
entirely new schedule.
To create a customized schedule, use the Run Repeatedly schedule with rotation type set to Custom
rotation. For information on modifying the custom interval schedule, see Modifying the Run at custom
interval Schedule below.
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. For more
information on this option see Chapter 7.
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:
Right-click the calendar and select the appropriate backup type from the shortcut menu
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Navigate to the day in the calendar and select the backup type by typing its shortcut key
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9. Apply the changes to the job.
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).
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.