Backup Advanced 11.7 - Plan Sequence and Backup dates
Hello,
I´m currently setting up several backup plans with Advanced Backup 11.7 on a server.
I have 2 quesions:
a) Sequencing
I know, that a plan is delayed until the previous plan is completed.
So what I intend to do is, that the start times of the backup plans differ by e.g. 5 minutes and by that I have the desired sequence and the plans run back-to-back.
Do I understand this correct ?
b) Backup Date
In the archive view, the backups have a date (by which I can also select the versions that I want to have restored in the restore process).
Some of the upper mentioned plans have a GFS scheme.
I´m now wondering, what date is used in the backup view.
Is it the date and time of the planned backup, the real start time or the real finish time.
I ask this because some of the backup plans are planned to start before midnight.
And if they are delayed due to a prior running plan they may start after midnight or are finished after midnight.
And if I must do a restore of a file "wednesday 3 weeks ago" this might be confusing if the backup date is thursday because it was delayed or finished after midnight.
Regards
Sven

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Hello.
a) The second plan will wait until the first one is completed and will start right after.
b) Backup date is plan's finish time.
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Thanks a lot for the responses.
If I schedule the backup plans with a difference of 5 minutes I can create a sequence.
But I think I remember, that I get some warnings that a plan must wait.
Is this correct?
Can I suppress this warning as it is a situation by incident and not by accident.
An Option "warning only if task is delayed for longer than xxx hours would be perfect for this..."
Regards
Sven
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> I get some warnings that a plan must wait.
No. If one plan needs to wait for other in order to start, there will be no warnings in logs or in plan status because of it.
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