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Data Protector 6.2 Scheduler

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Data Protector 6.2 is available since weeks with a lot of improved stuff and new features; unfortunately the scheduler (omnitrig) was not improved. To allow backups like: Make a backup on last sunday of month or Make a backup on first sunday of month, I found some usefull stuff at HP… Thanks to some Data Protector guys from US; the hack will work until 2032; of course until this date the new scheduler is implemented within Data Protector.
In the example a full backup on every last sunday of the month will be done.
Schedule
In this example a full backup on every first saturday of the month will be done.
Schedule
The schedules can be modifed to allow incremental backups or to change retention periods. To change the retention period you could i.e. add -full -protection -weeks 8. The two examples can be downloaded below.

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15 thoughts on “Data Protector 6.2 Scheduler”

  1. Hallo,

    ich müsste so ein Schedule für folgendes Szenario erstellen und weiß nicht genau wie das aussehen soll, vielleicht könnt ihr mir ja weiterhelfen.

    Incr. Sicherung, Montag bis Sonntag, alle 15 Minuten

    Liebe Grüße
    Markus

  2. Hallo Markus,

    wenn Du nur eine inkrementelle Sicherung alle 15 Minuten machen musst dann sieht die Schedule Datei so aus…#

    Grüße
    Daniel

    -incr
    -every
    -day Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    -at 00:00

    -incr
    -every
    -day Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    -at 00:15

    -incr
    -every
    -day Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    -at 00:30

    -incr
    -every
    -day Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    -at 00:45

    -incr
    -every
    -day Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    -at 01:00
    .
    .
    .

    -incr
    -every
    -day Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    -at 23:00

    -incr
    -every
    -day Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    -at 23:15

    -incr
    -every
    -day Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    -at 23:30

    -incr
    -every
    -day Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    -at 23:45

  3. Hi Daniel,

    I have copied the schedule file , and it doesnt seen to be excluding the Friday ? i have backups running on each of the dates in the include, but not excluding the dates.

    Please advise

    I am running DP621

  5. Hi,

    can i schedule a backup which starts on the 3 workday in a month?

    Best regards

    • Hi Daniel,

      Yes, this will be possible with some modifications.

      Best regards
      Daniel

      • Hi Daniel.

        do you know the modifications for the schedule file to start a backup on the 3 workday every month?

        Best regards,
        Daniel

  6. Hi Daniel

    how do I create a a schedule that excludes the first Friday of each month

    thanks

    Wendy

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