Configuring a schedule

Working with schedules : Configuring a schedule

Configuring a schedule

A schedule consists of a set of details. Each detail refers to a specific backup circumstance, for example, “Occurs every 2 week(s) on Friday, at 6:00 PM”. Each schedule must have at least one detail. You can add as many details to a schedule as required.

To configure a schedule:

1. Click the Backup Schedules tab, and then do one of the following:

• To create a new schedule, on the Schedule menu, click New Schedule.

• To modify an existing schedule, select the schedule, on the Schedule menu, click Edit Schedule.

The Schedule dialog box appears.

F1 Help: "Schedule"

2. In the Name box, type or edit the name of the schedule.

3. If this schedule is for a portable computer, select the box DS-Client on portable computer (verify network connection) and set Limit CPU usage to (%). This limits the DS-Client service’s CPU to permit continued use of other applications on the portable.

4. Do one of the following:

• To make a new detail, under Occurs, select the frequency at which the schedule runs. Click New, and then configure the details.

• To edit a detail, click on its name in the tree or select if from the Details box.

5. In the corresponding section for One Time, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly, specify when you would like this detail to run.

6. In the Detail Frequency section, specify the frequency when this detail will run.

7. In the Detail Period section, specify the dates when this detail will be active for this schedule.

8. In the Tasks section, specify the task(s) to run for this detail. You can run one or multiple tasks in a single detail.

• 1. Perform Backup — Start a scheduled backup session.

• 2. Enforce Retention — Enforce retention rules assigned to backup sets. For more information, see “Working with retention rules”.

• 3. Perform Validation — Perform scheduled validation of backup set data. For more information, see “Deleting backup sets and backup set data” for more information.

a) When you select this box, the Verify Encryption Key dialog box appears; type the DS-Client encryption keys.

F1 Help: "Verify Encryption Key"

b) Beside 3. Perform Validation, click >>.

F1 Help: "Scheduled Validation Options"

c) In the Scheduled Validation Options dialog box, select any of the following 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. For more information, see “Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM)”.

a) Click >> to display the Select BLM Options dialog box.

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 can 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 the 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.

9. Click Save.

Each new detail is automatically assigned a name, based on the frequency selected, and a number (e.g. daily:1, weekly:2).

10. When you have finished adding details, click Close to exit.