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Cleanup schedule
(only if
On schedule
is
selected)
Specifies a schedule for archive cleanup.
For example, the cleanup can be scheduled to start on the last day of each
month.
This option is available only if you selected
On schedule
in
Apply the rules
.
Examples
Weekly full backup
The following scheme yields a full backup performed every Friday night.
Full backup
:
Schedule: Weekly
, every
Friday
, at
10:00 PM
Here, all parameters except
Schedule
in
Full backup
are left empty. All backups in the archive are
kept indefinitely (no archive cleanup is performed).
Full and incremental backup plus cleanup
With the following scheme, the archive will consist of weekly full backups and daily incremental
backups. We further require that a full backup begin only after all users have logged off.
Full backup: Schedule: Weekly
, every
Friday
, at
10:00 PM
Full backup: Conditions: User is logged off
Incremental: Schedule: Weekly, every workday
, at
9:00 PM
Also, let all backups older than one year be deleted from the archive, and let the cleanup be
performed upon creating a new backup.
Retention rules:
Delete backups older than
12 months
Apply the rules: After backing up
By default, a one-year-old full backup will not be deleted until all incremental backups that depend
on it become subject to deletion too. For more information, see Retention rules (p. 40).
Monthly full, weekly differential, and daily incremental backups plus cleanup
This example demonstrates the use of all options available in the Custom scheme.
Suppose that we need a scheme that will produce monthly full backups, weekly differential backups,
and daily incremental backups. Then the backup schedule can look as follows.
Full backup: Schedule: Monthly
, every
Last Sunday
of the month, at
9:00 PM
Incremental: Schedule: Weekly
, every
workday
, at
7:00 PM
Differential: Schedule: Weekly
, every
Saturday
, at
8:00 PM
Further, we want to add conditions that have to be satisfied for a backup task to start. This is set up
in the
Conditions
fields for each backup type.
Full backup
:
Conditions
:
Location available
Incremental
:
Conditions
:
User is logged off
Differential
:
Conditions
:
User is idle