Distribute Start Time

Dear John!

Welcome to our Forum, we're glad to greet you here! I understand your scenario and will be glad to help you with it.

Unfortunately currently our Scheduler is designed in such a way that there's no particular interval for starting the backup on different machines, but this is a very reasonable suggestion. I've already sent your comment to the Development team: they will look into the opportunity to implement it in future releases.

As a workaround you can schedule a task for each machine separately, setting its own time, but please keep in mind that should the first task still be running when the start time of the second comes, the second task will be stalled until the first one finishes.

Should you need anything else or have any further questions - feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience, we will be happy to help you!

Thank you!

Hello Yana,

Thank you for the response & forwarding my suggestion to the Dev team. This feature would definitely help when scheduling large numbers of machines & trying to avoid overloading the network.

Why random distribution (with, maybe, network speed throttling) doesn't work in your case?

I don't want the backup server to become overloaded & induce corruption into an archive. This has happened in the past when many machines are backing up at the same time. After checking time stamps I know how long a backup takes for each machine & schedule accordingly so overlap does not occur.