backup scheduling

[sb1815]

We have a job scheduled for differential daily and full weekly.
the files are sent offsite to the cloud.
To reduce costs the customer wants to change the schedule so the full backup happens every other week.
I cant see how to set the backup to an every 2nd week schedule. I can only set it for weekly or monthly.
Is there a way to do this ?
Can i setup 2 full backups that are scheduled for the first and third friday, or will that mess up my differential backups.

Is there a better option for doing what i am trying to do?

[Gostev]

You can run the job from command line using the Windows Scheduler. Thanks.

[sb1815]

Thanks for the quick response.

Will the differential backups automatically reset to backup the differences from the last full backup?
should i move both the differential backup and the full backup to use windows scheduler?
or should i leave the differential as is and just change the full backup to use windows scheduler?

[Vitaliy S.]

Every subsequent job run after full will be incremental one. There is no need to use windows scheduler for both incremental and full.

And just to save you some time, here is a PowerShell script example that triggers full job run: Backup Question

[sb1815]

I configured my Veeam backup named BU2Cloud to do incremental backups on weekdays and a full backup on the first friday of each month.
Then I setup a task in windows task manager to run on the third friday, it runs "powershell C:\Disks\BkupTask\VeeamFullBkup.ps1".

VeeamFullBkup.ps1 contains these commands

Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin
Get-PSSnapin
Start-VBRJob BU2Cloud -FullBackup

Does that look right to you?
Did I miss anything?


thanks for your help.

[Sethbartlett]

Close, you would want to do something like:

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$Job = Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.name -eq "BU2Cloud"}
Start-VBRJob $Job -FullBackup

Granted, you could probably pipe one into the other but this also works just as well.

[sb1815]

OK, this is what i have now in the VeeamFullBackup.ps1 file

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Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin
Get-PSSnapin
$Job = Get-VBRJob | ?{$_.name -eq "BU2Cloud"}
Start-VBRJob $Job -FullBackup

The only other thing i had to do was to rerun the Veeam setup and select to modify the install to include the powershell features.
I think it should work now,
Thanks for all your help.