Schedule Custom Jobs

All jobs can be scheduled using the Schedule options available in each Manager. Jobs can be submitted with a repeat method. For information about repeat methods, see Rotation Schemes or Custom Schedules.

If you select the Run Job Now option when your storage device is busy, Arcserve Backup reports that the storage device is busy and the job is not submitted to the Job Queue. You should schedule your job, keeping the current date and time. This way, when Arcserve Backup discovers that the storage device is busy, it automatically retries the job until the drive becomes free.

You should select the Run Job Now option when:

The job you are submitting is a one time only job that you want executed immediately.
You want to monitor the job as it runs.

You should schedule your job when:

You are submitting a single occurrence job but and you want it to run at a specific time.
You are submitting a single occurrence job, but you do not want to run it now. You want to submit the job on Hold, and start it manually at a later time.
You are submitting a job that should run regularly. This is especially useful for setting up a media rotation scheme for your network.
You are submitting relatively low volume, daily, full backups. With custom schedules, Arcserve Backup lets you specify the Append days option. The Append days option helps to maximize the amount of data stored on tape and minimize the number tapes that need to be stored, relative to a job.
Your storage device is busy and you want to run a backup job as soon as the drive is free. To do this, schedule your backup job with the current date and time.

Important! All scheduled times for Arcserve Backup jobs are based upon the time zone where the Arcserve Backup server is located. If your agent machine is located in a different time zone than the Arcserve Backup server, you will need to calculate the equivalent local time that you want the job to start.