The scheduling of snapshots is handled by the Recovery Solution Agent settings policy. This policy allows you to specify which days you wish to have snapshots taken and the hours in which the snapshots can be performed. One snap shot is taken per day scheduled.

How does Recovery Solution schedule snapshots is auto snapshots per one hour scheduled? the policy ?

ibrahimba,

As far as I can been able to tell, the RS schedules each machine to start at the "After" time you specify in the Agent policy (say, 5:00 AM). Then it looks at the maximum # of concurrent snapshots to run for machines on that schedule (say, 20). It takes the top 20 machines and tries to initiate the snapshot on them. If some or all of the machines aren't available, it reschedules those machines to another time to try, and picks the next machines in the list and tries to start them, and so on until 20 snapshots are running. From what I have worked out, it divides the total snapshot window (say, 5:00 AM to 3:00 PM) into 5 equal parts. In this example, there are 10 hours in the snapshot window, so each one is 2 hours long. So on those machines that weren't available at 5:00 AM, it tries to start them again at 7:00 AM. There is also some function that looks at when the machine took their prior snapshot and may try to schedule the machine to run at the same time it ran the prior day.



Actually I found this very nice article on the KB today with some "inside" information on RS:

https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=41474&p=1

Recovery Solution Administrator can schedule the following batch script to run on protected computer in order to ensure snapshot of a specified file that resides in a folder that was added to the Excludes list. The script creates a temporary folder on protected computer's drive to place a copy of the file that is destined for partial snapshot. In the end, AeXCmd command-line utility initiates the partial snapshot:



Note: Modify the script to specify temporary folder path (<path to temp folder&gt and path to file.

REM Batch start

@echo off



REM Specify temporary folder path

Set Path2Folder=<path to temp folder>



REM Specify file path

Set Path2File=<path to file>



REM Create temporary folder

If not exist %Path2Folder% md %Path2Folder%



REM Copy file to temporary folder

Copy /y "%Path2File%" "%Path2Folder%"



REM Run snapshot

"%ProgramFiles%\Altiris\eXpress\Client Recovery Agent\AeXCmd.exe" /RunSnapshot /AutoClose /Silent /File:"%Path2File%"









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