Schedule

Schedule
Name	Enter or change the name of this Schedule.
Administrator only (Windows DS‑Client only)	Specifies that only Administrators can use this Schedule.
DS-Client on portable computer	Indicates this schedule will be used by DS-Clients on laptops. The Schedule will check for a network connection to the DS-System. If it does not exist, the scheduled task(s) will not start. • The DS-Client will launch a popup message if the portable schedule misses more than two scheduled backups.
Limit CPU Usage to [...]%	Allows you to set a CPU limit for the DS-Client service process. This is useful if the portable computer is in use for other processes.
Details
Detail List	Use this list to select the detail you want to edit. • New details will display <Detail_Type>:<new> until they are saved. • An existing detail will have a unique number assigned to it (e.g. Daily:3). • For DS-User, all details in the Detail List also appear in the tree on the left-hand panel of this dialog box.
Excluded	Select to create a “negative” detail – this will specifically not run a backup (or any other tasks) at the time and date of the detail. It will override any other details that are scheduled to run at that time.
New	Click to create a new detail.
Delete	Deletes the selected detail from the Detail List
Copy	Copies an existing detail (from any of the existing schedules). Opens the "Select Schedule Detail".
Occurs
One time	Enter the date and time to run the scheduled task(s) once.
Daily	Displays the Daily tab. To specify a daily schedule, enter the frequency of the Detail in the number box. (For example: if you enter “3”, it means the Schedule will run every third day. The intervals are based on the Start Date of this Detail.)
Weekly	[Default] Displays the Weekly tab. To specify a weekly schedule, enter the frequency of the Detail in the number box. (For example: if you enter “2”, it means the schedule will run every second week. The intervals are based on the Start Date of this detail.) You can also select the day(s) during the week that this schedule will run, by checking and clearing the appropriate days.
Monthly	Displays the Monthly tab. To specify a monthly schedule, select the frequency of the Detail from the two radio button options: • Day - Specify a day (from 1-28) of each month (or interval of months) to perform a backup • The - Specify the day (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or last) and associated weekday (Sunday-Saturday, day, weekday, or weekend day), of each month (or interval of months) to perform a backup (For example "the last Friday of every 3 months").
Detail Frequency
Occurs once	[Default] Specifies a backup (or any other tasks) will occur once, during the time specified.
Occurs every [...] hours	Specifies that backups (or any other tasks) occur every n number of hours, during the time window specified. • If you select this frequency, you must specify an “Ending at” time.
Starting at	Indicates the start time for this Detail.
Ending at	You can specify an end time to create a time window. The drop-down list allows you to specify the number of days in the window (from “Same day” up to “in 9 days”). • Any scheduled Backup or Start LAN Scan Shares task(s) will terminate if the “Ending at” time is reached. • All other tasks (Enforce Retention, Perform Validation, Perform BLM, Clean Local-Only Trash) will run until they complete if they start before the “Ending at” time.
Detail Period
Start date	You must specify a start date. For new Details, the default is the current date.
End date	(Optional) You can specify an end date for the schedule period. This Detail will cease to apply to the Schedule after the end date.
Tasks • Shows the tasks that this schedule detail will perform. Note that if any of tasks 1-4 are selected, they will be performed in that order on the backup set.
1. Perform Backup	Select to include a backup task for this detail.
2. Enforce Retention	Select to enforce the Retention Rules for each backup set. • For a description of this process, see “Working with retention rules”.
3. Perform Validation	Select to include a Validation task for this detail. The "Verify Encryption Key" dialog box appears and you must enter them before you can proceed. • Once you have entered the Encryption Keys, you can click >> to open the "Scheduled Validation Options" dialog box. • For a description of this process, see “Deleting backup sets and backup set data”.
4. Perform BLM	Select to include a BLM task for this detail. Click >> to open the "Select BLM Options" dialog box. • For a description of this process, see “Backup Lifecycle Management (BLM)”.
Start LAN Scan Shares	Select to start the LAN Scan Shares task for this detail. Since scanning the shares can take quite some time, this option for scheduling the task is provided. • See “Configuring scanned shares”.
Clean Local-Only Trash	Select to include a Clean Local-Only Trash task for this detail. • For a description of this process, see “Deleting local-only backup set data”.
Perform Replication	Select to start the replication for any VM replication sets scheduled with this detail. • For a description of this process, see “About VM replication”.