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From: <...>
Set up a date when this schedule will be enabled (an effective date). If this
check box is cleared, the task will be started on the nearest day and time you
have specified above.
To: <...>
Set up a date when this schedule will be disabled. If this check box is cleared,
the task will be run for an indefinite number of months.
Advanced scheduling settings (p. 165) are available only for machines registered on Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10 Management Server. To specify these settings, click
Change
in the
Advanced settings
area.
All the settings you made are displayed in the
Result
field at the bottom of the window.
Examples
"Last day of every month" schedule
Run the task once at 10 PM on the last day of every month.
The schedule's parameters are set up as follows.
1.
Months:
<All months>
.
2.
Days:
Last
. The task will run on the last day of every month despite its actual date.
3.
Once at:
10:00:00 PM
.
4.
Effective:
From:
empty
.
To:
empty
.
This schedule is widely used when creating a custom backup scheme. The "Last day of every month"
schedule is added to the full backups, while the differential backups are scheduled to be performed
once a week and incremental on workdays. For more details, see the Monthly full, weekly
differential, and daily incremental backups plus cleanup example in the Custom backup scheme (p.
207) section.
"Season" schedule
Run the task on all workdays during the northern autumn seasons of 2009 and 2010. During a
workday, the task is performed every 6 hours from 12 AM (midnight) till 6 PM.
The schedule's parameters are set up as follows.
1.
Months:
September, October, November
.
2.
On:
<all> <workdays>
.
3.
Every:
6
hours.
From:
12:00:00 AM
Until:
06:00:00 PM
.
4.
Effective:
From:
08/30/2009
. Actually the task will be started on the first workday of September. By setting
up this date we just define that the task must be started in 2009.
To:
12/01/2010
. Actually the task will end on the last workday of November. By setting up this
date we just define that the task must be discontinued in 2010, after autumn ends in the
northern hemisphere.
Several monthly schedules for one task
