Scheduling Backups

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How do you get more granular on the scheduling capabilities?
I want to set our tape backup to occur every day EXCEPT weekends and holidays as defined by us. I do not see any way to do so, i.e. like on a calendar.
Also how do you get the tape to eject once the backup is complete?

Thanks for your enlightenment!

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 18:27
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This level of granularity can be achieved by two ways - the first is to set up a pre-backup script and use it with 'fail the backup if pre-backup command failed', and this script should return non-zero exit code if backup should not be run. Drawback - error indicating failed backup is logged this day.
The second is to use and external scheduler and to either set up schedule 'on windows event' and an external script run by schedule and generating such events, or this script invokes acrocmd (Acronis Backup command-line utility) that runs the necessary task (full/incremental/differential) of an existing backup plan.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 19:49
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Fedor,

Thank you for your reply. This procedure(s) seems complicated and convoluted. Can I request you put in a calendar based scheduling component similar to Symantec's BackUp Exec? Your product works very well as a disaster recovery mechanism but does not seem ready for daily use for people using removable media that they don't want to have written to over again on weekends and holidays.

Cheers

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 20:47