Schedules on the Schedules Tab
The schedules determine when the backups occur. Each schedule also includes criteria, such as how long to retain the backups.
There are two basic categories of schedules, automatic and user, and there are different types of schedules within these categories:
- Automatic schedules back up the backup selection list on all clients in the policy according to the timetables set up in the schedules. For example, you can set one schedule for daily incremental backups and another for weekly full backups. A cumulative incremental backup includes all files that have changed since the last full backup. A full backup includes all files in the backup selection list regardless of whether they have changed.
Note
NetBackup recommends that you do not combine differential incremental backups and cumulative incremental backups within the same Windows policy when the incremental backups are based on archive bit (default).
- User schedules specify the times when users can start user backups and archives from the clients. A user archive is a special type of backup that deletes the files from the user disk if the backup is successful. An archive is useful for freeing disk space while still keeping a copy for future use.
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