Backup Time Windows
Hi,
I'm new to using Backup Exec, we're in the process of implementing it and should be using it in production from next week.
One thing I'm not clear on; when entering schedules I define a time window by stating the "start no earlier than" and "and no later than" times in the template (using policies). I've read elsewhere on this forum that I can queue jobs by having one "start no earlier than" 19:00 and a second "start no earlier than" 20:00. In this case, even if job one taskes longer than 1 hour to complete job two will be queued and started after one has finished.
My question is what happens if job one takes so long to run it doesn't finish until after the "and no later than" time defined for job two? Does it run anyway as it has already been queued or does it fail to run altogether for that occurrence?
Thanks,
Andy.
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Depends. If you're backing up to a medium that can only do one job at a time (such as tape), then if the first job is running, the second will stay queued (I think it might say no idle devices). When the first job finishes, the second job dequeues.
http://www.backupexecfaq.com
Hi,
This doesn't really answer my question. I get how the second job will queue until the first job is finished then dequeue. My question is, will it still dequeue and run if the "no later than" time has passed or will this occurrence be skipped?
Andy.
No, it will miss the backup specified for that day / time. It will rerun at the next occurence
It will show up in the "job history" pane with at status of "missed"
Perfect, that's what I was trying to find out.
Thanks,
Andy.
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