HP B6960-90078 manual Starting Backups on Specific Dates, Starting Periodic Backups

Backup

Scheduling Unattended Backups

Starting Backups on Specific Dates

Data Protector allows you to define the date and time when you want your unattended backup to start. You usually want to back up on specific dates when configuring exceptions to your regular periodic backups, for example, if you want to back up some data before a specific event.

How to Configure To configure a backup on a specific date, you can create a new backup

Backups on specification, or modify an existing one. For detailed steps, refer to the

Specific Dates online Help index keyword “scheduling backups on specific dates and times”.

Starting Periodic Backups

Periodic backups are based on a time period after a specific date. For example, you may configure periodic backups so that a full backup is done on Sunday at 3 a.m. and repeated every two days. The next full backup would be at 3 a.m. the following Tuesday. Periodic backups simplify backup configuration for regularly scheduled backups.

Data Protector provides predefined backup schedules to simplify the configuration.

Predefined Backup Schedules

The predefined backup schedules provided can be used to simplify your configuration. You can modify the schedules later. Schedule types include those described in the following sections:

Daily intensive

Data Protector runs a full backup at midnight and two additional incremental backups at 12:00 (noon) and 18:00 (6 p.m.) every day. This backup type is intended for database transaction servers and other environments with intensive backup requirements.

Daily full

Data Protector runs a full backup every day at 21:00 (9 p.m.). This is intended for backups of single workstations or servers.

Weekly full

Data Protector runs a full backup every Friday and Incr1 backups every day from Monday to Friday at 21:00 (9 p.m.). This is intended for small environments.

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