Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Frequency Based Backup Schedule (every 3 hours 3 65 days a year)

2004-06-25 15:34:37
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Frequency Based Backup Schedule (every 3 hours 3 65 days a year)
From: jason.helfman AT ticketmaster DOT com (Jason Helfman)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:34:37 -0700
Just block out a 24 hour window everyday of the week run with a 
Frequency setting of 3 hours on the policy.


David Rock wrote:
> * Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org> [2004-06-24 13:11]:
> 
>>On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:44:53PM -0500, David Rock wrote:
>>
>>>* Scott Jacobson <SJACOBSO AT novell DOT com> [2004-06-24 11:13]:
>>>
>>>>Frequency based gurus;
>>>> 
>>>>In NBU 4.5 FP5, what would the time window setting a frequency
> 
> setting
> 
>>>>need to be set to for backups to occur every three hours 365 days
> 
> a
> 
>>>>year.
>>>
>>>set up a window that is open 24 hours every day with a frequency of
> 
> 3
> 
>>>hours.
>>
>>I disagree. I've seen many cases where NBU would not schedule the same
>>backup twice in the same window.  In other words, a 7x24 window will
>>schedule the backup to run only once, whereas 7 24hour windows will
> 
> run
> 
>>a daily 7 times.  
>>
>>I would expect that you would have to define 8 3hour windows per day.
> 
> I know this works as expected because I screwed up once and did exactly
> this. It took a while to figure out what had happened.

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