Working with schedules : Configuring a schedule : Adding a detail to a schedule
 
Adding a detail to a schedule
In a schedule, each detail is a description of a specific date/time pattern to perform a backup (or other tasks that can be scheduled). You can add as many details to a schedule as required.
Example: You want to back up weekly, and on a specific day (the last Friday of every month). To do so, create one detail for the weekly backup, and a second detail for the monthly backup.
1. Click New beside the Details list. The Details list will indicate the current detail is new (e.g. Weekly: <new>). In the section Occurs, select the type of schedule detail you want (One Time, Daily, Weekly, Monthly).
2. In the corresponding section for One Time / Daily / Weekly / Monthly, specify when you would like this detail to run.
3. In the Daily Frequency section, specify the frequency when this detail will run.
4. In the Detail Period section, specify the dates when this detail will be active for this Schedule.
5. In the Tasks section, specify the task(s) to run for this detail. You can run multiple tasks in a single detail, however if any of the tasks numbered 1-4 are selected, they will run in that order on the backup set.
• 1. Perform Backup: Start a scheduled backup session
• 2. Enforce Retention: Enforce retention rules assigned to backup sets (see “Working with retention rules”).
• 3. Perform Validation: Perform scheduled validation of backup set data. See “Deleting backup sets and backup set data” for more information.
a) When you select this box, the Verify Encryption Key screen appears; enter the DS-Client Encryption Key(s).
F1 Help: "Verify Encryption Key"
b) Click >> to edit Scheduled Validation Options.
F1 Help: "Scheduled Validation Options"
• Validate last generation only: Select to validate only the latest generation of backup data for the selected backup set.
• Exclude files deleted from source: Select to skip validation of files that have been deleted from the source computer.
• Resume from previously interrupted location: Select to configure this schedule to resume validation from the point of interruption if the last scheduled Validation did not finish. This is useful for large backup sets
• 4. Perform BLM: Request DS-System to copy a backup set snapshot to BLM. See “Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM)” for more information.
a) Click >> to display the Select BLM Options screen.
F1 Help: "Select BLM Options"
 
 
Archive Options
Archive packages are specific to a particular backup set.
• The default (if these options are not selected) is for each BLM Request to be added to the current Archive Package on the BLM Archiver.
Close active package
Select to use a new archive package. Otherwise, this Archive request will be added to the current archive package on the BLM Archiver.
• You must specify when the package will be closed:
• at session start - makes a new Archive Package. This means the previous package (if one exists) will be closed, and the new request will go to the new package.
• at session end - uses the current Archive Package. This means the new request will go to the current package, and after it finishes, the package will be closed.
Once a package is closed, no new data will be added. Subsequent archiving requests will create a new archive package.
Reference previous archive packages
Select to allow the Archive Package to contain references to older packages. This saves space by removing data redundancy.
• The default (if this option is not selected) is for each Archive Package to contain all of the required files.
Generations to include
• Latest generation - Creates a BLM Archive containing the latest generation of all items selected.
• All generations - Creates a BLM Archive containing all the (online) generations of all items selected.
• Start LAN Scan Shares: Start scanning the LAN shares for statistical data. Since this may take a significant amount of time, this task is run last. (For a description of this process, see “About the LAN storage Discovery Tool”).
• Clean Local-Only Trash: Start a Clean Local-Only Trash process on all Local-Only storage locations for this DS-Client. (For a description of this process, see “Deleting local-only backup set data”).
• Perform Replication: Start a replication process for any VM replication sets to which this schedule is assigned. (For a description of this process, see “About VM replication”).
NOTE:  Tasks 1-4 will run in that order on a backup set. Other tasks will start immediately.
6. Click Save.
Each new detail is automatically assigned a name, based on the frequency selected, and a number (e.g. daily:1, weekly:2).
You can continue adding details to this schedule by repeating steps 1-6 above, as required.
7. When you have finished adding details, click Close to exit.