Period - Specify how often you want a backup to run. When you select Week, the backup level is applied to that day of the week for all the weeks in the calendar year, for example, full backups every Sunday. When you select Month, the backup level is applied to that day of the month for all months in the calendar year, for example, full backups on the fifteenth of each month. Week is the default setting. Level -Select the backup level for each day in the period. Valid values for backup level include "full," "incr," and "1-9." See Backup Levelsfor more information on backup levels.
Override - Specify a list of actions and dates overriding an existing backup level for a specific day. For example, you may not want a full backup to run on a holiday. You can override the schedule so the full backup runs on the day before or the day after the holiday.
Force - You might also want to change this incremental setting which is located in the Groups resource. The default setting for this attribute is "Yes." This means an incremental backup will occur if the group is run more than once a day. Set this attribute to "No" to do more than one full backup per day.

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Configuration Order for Backup Schedules

If you want to use your own customized schedule, you must configure the schedule before you can associate it with a client or save set in the Clients resource. The start time for your automatic daily scheduled backup is determined by the backup group with which the client save sets are associated. The length of time that the data is available for browsing or recovery is determined by the browse and retention policies you configure for the client's save sets, rather than by the schedule.

Backup Levels

Because it may not be practical or efficient for you to run a full level backup every day, Backup enables you to specify the level of the backup operation performed during its automatic, scheduled group backups. Limiting how often you perform a full backup can help maintain server efficiency, while still ensuring that your data is protected. Different backup levels enable you to trade off the number of volumes and amount of time required to complete a backup with the number of volumes and amount of time required to recover from a disk crash.
Backup supports four kinds of backup levels for filesystem data: *Full - backs up all files, regardless of whether they have changed. *Level 1-9 -backs up fi les that have changed since the last lower numberedbackup
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