You can create a long window backup with a short frequency.  For example, 12
hour window, opened at 8:00 with a 7 hour frequency would trigger at both
8:00 am and 7 hours later at 3:00 pm.  It wouldn't trigger again until 8:00
am since the window would close before the 14th hour frequency became
available again.

Hard to say - easy to implement.

-M

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Matthew
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Schedules Per Day


Some of my clients require multiple backup windows per day.  For
instance, they will run a backup at 8:00 am, and 3:00 pm every day.  Up
to now, we have been handling this using multiple policies, since when
we setup two windows for the same day on a calendar based schedule the
job only ran 1 time a day.  I would guess that the only way to achieve
this would be with a frequency based schedule, but I'm wondering if the
calendar schedule can be made to run more than once a day. 

The reasoning behind consolidating the policies is two-fold.  One, to
reduce the number of policies, and two, to be able to accomplish
accurate incremental backups. 

Matthew Dobbertien
Chicago Tribune
Sr. Systems Analyst
mdobbertien AT tribune DOT com

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