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[Veritas-bu] Policy Issue - Frequency Based Scheduling

2006-05-15 09:46:16
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Policy Issue - Frequency Based Scheduling
From: JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com (Martin, Jonathan (Contractor))
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:46:16 -0400
I realize this is more of a "philosophical" question and apologize in
advance.

After auditing a few backup servers for a couple of weeks now, I've come
to realize that if a certain weekly backup job fails on any given day,
and I re-run it manually during the day/week following that it does not
fire off again next "week"!  Why?  Because (according to Veritas) when
the job schedule triggers, it finds the last successful backup (of that
schedule) was within the last week, and does not "need" to fire.  This
is the way 99% of my full backups are scheduled.

Example - 

Full Backup Scheduled Tuesday Night at 8:00PM - 3 month retention -
Frequency Based Scheduling - 1 week.  If it fails and I rerun it on
Wednesday then it doesn't fire the next Tuesday, because its run in the
past 7 days. =/

Anyhow, how are people working around this "issue."  I've come up with
two possible solutions.

1 - Calendar based scheduling for "every week" on Tuesday
2 - Change my frequency to 2 or 3 days - assuming the window only opens
that one day.

Ideas?

-Jonathan


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