The previous sysadmin has only scheduled 5 backups for ~75 guests. Each scheduled job has a 'post job activity' that calls a batch file to backup a different vm, and that job calls another job, and so on...up to a total of 11-17 chained backups. The scheduled jobs start 15 min apart so I'm not sure what the advantage is of doing it this way except to make sure that one backup job failure can cause others to be missed

Most of the vm's are on a SAN but a few are in a DMZ standalone server that we have to use NBT for, but the vast majority are going across FC. Also, we're currently using 4.1 and I am looking at upgrading to 5.0.
Is there any reason/benefit to scheduling the backups in a chain like this or should I just be scheduling the backups so that I'm only running 5 or so at a time, or???
Tks!