Group Interval Schedule

[blissti]

I want to schedule a Monthly backup and I created a schedule called "Monthly". I set skip on everyday of the month except the last day. I set the client to this schedule. I set the backup to run at 22:00 in the Group setting, what do I set the interval to?

 

[Chacalinc]

the interval? the group tells to NW to run a backup at 22:00, the schedule tells to NW to bkacup full, inc,skip at certain day.

what more?

 

[blissti]

Under Group Managment, if you go to the properties of a group and go to the preferences tab there is a setting called interval that has a default setting of 24 hours. What is this used for?

 

[Chacalinc]

ah, ok.. it is used when you want to trigger the backup several times in the "same day". Example, if you want to backup something 3 times a day (each 8 hours) you set that field to 8.

Cheers.

 

[blissti]

The default is 24 hours and it doesn't let you put in 0...how do you turn it off?

 

[Chacalinc]

you can't put it in 0, it is 1-24. 24 is the default since it is an interval of 24 hours (each 1 day).

Cheers.

 

[605]

The easiest way for a montly backup is the following:
- create a new group
- set the level full for the group
- set autostart to disabled
- set the desired start time
- add all necessary clients to this group
- on the last day of the month, enable autostart and
do not forget to disable it the next day

It is not the best but the easiest way.