Advanced Scheduling of Jobs

[kjstech]

I would like to know if there's any command-line equivalent to kick of a specific job. My reason is that I want my backups to run off business hours, but depending on the day of the week our hours change. I have a backup job for each vmware datastore (there are 5 NFS datastores) so there are 5 jobs. The first job is the key to all other jobs as other jobs are scheduled to start when the previous one ends. So for that first job I want it to start at 5:40 PM M,T,W and 7:40 PM Th, F and 2:40 PM Sa and anytime on Sunday.

I found I can clone a job and rename it and give it a different schedule, but what this does is waste a ton of space on the backup destination as it creates a new folder with the new job name, which causes a full backup to be run again rather than incremental. I don't have enough space for that currently.

[veremin]

It's not possible to set different schedule using GUI. However, you can put into use PS, instead. The following script that initiates job start can scheduled (via Windows Scheduler) to run at whatever time you want to:

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Get-VBRJob -name "Name of your backup job" | Start-VBRJob

Thanks.

[kjstech]

Thank you. That's exactly what I was looking for.

I did open a low priority case on this early this morning but I did put in there that if its not possible to do via the gui, I would like to at least make the concern as a potential future feature request.

[veremin]

This is the exact place where you can place your feature requests, since these forums are monitored and analysed for potential product features. Thanks.