Configuring a schedule

A schedule consists of a set of details that represent a specific set of tasks that will run at the defined frequency for the schedule. Each schedule must have at least one detail. You can add as many details to a schedule as required.

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

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

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

NOTE: To delete a schedule, select the schedule, on the Schedule menu, click Delete Schedule.

b) To specify that only administrators can use the schedule, select the Administrator only check box (Windows DS-Clients only).

c) If the schedule will be used by DS-Clients on laptops, select the DS-Client on portable computer (verify network connection) check box. In the Limit CPU usage to (%) box, enter the CPU limit for the DS-Client service.

NOTE: The schedule checks for a network connection to the DS-System. If it does not exist, the schedule will not start. The DS-Client will display a message if the laptop schedule misses more than two scheduled backups.

• To create a schedule detail, click New. New schedule details appear as <Detail_Type>:<new> until they are saved.

• To edit a schedule detail, select the detail. Each schedule detail has a unique number assigned to it (e.g. Daily:3).

• To copy a schedule detail from an existing schedule, click Copy.

• To create a negative schedule detail, select the Excluded check box. This specifically does not run a backup or any other tasks at the time and date of the schedule detail and overrides any other details that are scheduled to run at that time.

• To delete a schedule detail, select the detail, and then click Delete.

4. Under Occurs, select the frequency at which the schedule runs. The options are as follows:

• One Time – Runs the schedule once on the date specified.

• Daily – Runs the schedule daily based on the frequency specified. For example, if you enter 3, the schedule will run every third day. The intervals are based on the start date.

• Weekly– Runs the schedule weekly based on the frequency specified. For example, if you enter 2, the schedule will run every second week on the days you specify. The intervals are based on the start date.

• Monthly – Runs the schedule monthly based on the frequency specified. You can enter a specific day each month (e.g. day 1 of every 1 month) or the day and weekday of each month (e.g. 1st Sunday or every 1 month) that you want to run the schedule.

a) To specify that the schedule occur only once, select Occurs once.

b) To specify that the schedule occur every specific number of hours, select Occurs every, and then enter the number of hours.

c) In the Starting at box, enter the start time for the schedule detail.

d) To specify an end time for the schedule detail, select the Ending at check box, and then enter an end time for the schedule detail and time period.

NOTE: If you select the Occurs every option, you must specify an end time. Scheduled backup or start LAN scan shares tasks will terminate when the end time is reached. All other tasks will run until they complete if they start before the end time.

a) In the Start date box, specify a start date for the schedule detail.

b) To specify an end date for the schedule detail, select the End date check box, and then specify an end date for the schedule detail.

NOTE: The detail will no longer apply to the schedule after the end date

7. Under Tasks, select the tasks that you want to run for the schedule detail. You can run one or multiple tasks in a single detail. The options are as follows:

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

NOTE: If the schedule applies to a CDP backup, a full scan and backup of the items is performed once.

• 2. Enforce Retention — Enforces the retention rules assigned to the backups.

NOTE: If the schedule applies to a CDP backup, the CDP process is suspended, retention is enforced, and a new CDP process is started.

• 3. Perform Validation — Performs a scheduled validation of the backup data. Type the private and account encryption keys, and then click OK. To configure the validation options to be used for all backups using the backup schedule, click >>, and then do the following:

• To validate only the latest generation of backup data for the selected backup, select the Validate last generation only check box.

• To skip the validation of files that have been deleted from the source computer, select the Exclude files deleted from source check box.

• To configure the schedule to resume validation from the point of interruption if the last scheduled validation did not finish, select the Resume from previously interrupted location check box.

NOTE: If the schedule applies to a CDP backup and validation is competed without errors, the CDP process is suspended and then resumed. If the validation process completes with errors, the CDP process is suspended and then restarted.

• 4. Perform BLM — Requests the DS-System to copy a backup snapshot to the BLM Archiver. The default is for each BLM request to be added to the current archive package on the BLM Archiver. To configure the BLM options, click >>, and then do the following:

• To use a new archive package, select the Close archive package check box, and then specify when the archive package will be closed. Once an archive package is closed, no new data will be added. Subsequent archiving requests will create a new archive package.

• To allow the archive package to contain references to older archive packages, select the Reference previous archive package(s) check box. This can save space by removing data redundancy.

• Under Generations to include, specify if you want the archive package to contain the latest generation or all generations.

NOTE: If the schedule applies to a CDP backup, the CDP process is suspended, BLM is performed, and then the CDP process is resumed.

• Start LAN Scan Shares — Starts scanning the LAN shares for statistical data. Since this can take a significant amount of time, this task is run last.

• Clean Local-only Trash — Starts a Clean Local-only Trash process on all local-only storage locations for the DS-Client.

• Perform Replication — Starts a replication process for any VM replication sets to which this schedule is assigned.

NOTE: Tasks 1-4 will run in that order on a backup. Other tasks will start immediately. If the schedule applies to a CDP backup, the DS-Client forces a full scan of all the items in the backup the next time the scheduled starts.

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