Scheduling issues

[Blue407]

Morning All

I am setting up a new Veeam backup solution, my first time.
I have a number of backup jobs that run through the day:-

JOB1 - Scheduled to run every 2 hrs between 08:00 and 21:00 (Mon-Fri)
JOB2 - Scheduled to run every 2 hrs between 09:00 and 22:00 (Mon-Fri)

There are multiple jobs configured the same as JOB1 and multiple jobs the same as JOB2. The point of having different availability hours was to ensure different servers were backing up on odd and even hours.

JOB1 jobs work 100% as expected, they backup at 08:00, 10:00. 12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00 and 20:00.

JOB2 jobs work in a very strange way!, they all backup at 09:00, 10:00. 12:00, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00 and 20:00. Each is a separate job configured in the same way as JOB1, just different hours of availability...

Any suggestions?

[veremin]

I think what you see is expected behaviour, because with "every X hours" type of schedule intervals are defined starting from midnight. Thanks.

[Blue407]

Oh, that's disappointing. and slightly illogical.

Is there any way to avoid this other than putting a 'Start time within an hour' at 60 mins? for the JOB2's?

[veremin]

Set job to run periodically every hour and explicitly prohibit its execution during even hours using backup window settings. Thanks.

[Blue407]

Set job to run periodically every hour and explicitly prohibit its execution during even hours using backup window settings. Thanks.

Instead I changed the offset to 59 mins in the job. I didn't want to block out lots of hours.

[Shestakov]

Not sure how changing 2hours to 59min can help here. If you want to suppress backup activity during particular hours you should set backup window.
I would also follow Vladimir`s suggestion and set the job to run every hour with particular backup windows.
Thanks!

[Blue407]

I've set the job offset to 59 min. so job starts at 10:59, 12:59, 14:59, rather than the desired 11:00, 13:00 and 15:00

[Shestakov]

I see your point. Looks like a smart workaround!