Separate Scheduling for Daily Incremental and Weekly Full

[habibalby]

Hi,
I can see that only one schedule that can be configured for each job, which will includes First Full backup, Active Full backup and Daily Increments. Now, daily incremental takes less time than the full backup and I have configured the jobs to run each after another with minimum 20 - 30 minutes cap. In the same job I have selected Weekly Active Full Backup, which again if Friday trigger it will run as Full in the same time that the daily incremental runs which will take longer to finish and in the same time the second job will start before the first job finish and will end up having whole jobs running and will slow down the read and write performance of the disks and Veeam server.

Is it possible to configure one job to run daily at different time with minimum cape between the other Jobs?

Is it possible to configure the same job to run weekly at different time with maximum cape to finish the first job?

Thanks,

[foggy]

Consider chaining the jobs using post-job activity option. There are multiple existing threads on this, please search the forums.

[habibalby]

Hello,

could you please elaborate on this a bit further?

My current Jobs configured as Daily Sunday to Thursday and setup as Full Active on Friday. But the problem I'm having they will run on Friday the same time that the Daily jobs and the Full Backup will take longer than the normal Incremental daily.

Since I have sufficient free window on Friday, I would like to start these Jobs during the free Windows on Friday as Full Backup.

Appreciate it,
Thanks,

[foggy]

You can trigger your jobs via PowerShell script using Windows Task Scheduler and set up the required schedule. Alternatively, you can set the job to run earlier but configure the beginning of the backup window as "denied" for all days except Friday.

[habibalby]

But how this script will trigger to run that specific job to run as Full instead of incremental?

Alternatively, you can set the job to run earlier but configure the beginning of the backup window as "denied" for all days except Friday.

You mean to say, I should create another job that should run only on Friday as Full but on different timing?

Thanks,

[habibalby]

The issue is I have to select days for Active Full or Reveres Incremental "Synthetic" other wise it won't let me to proceed the Backup Job configuration!!

Thanks,

[foggy]

But how this script will trigger to run that specific job to run as Full instead of incremental?

If the full is scheduled for that day, the job will automatically perform the full backup during its first run on that day.

Alternatively, you can set the job to run earlier but configure the beginning of the backup window as "denied" for all days except Friday.

You mean to say, I should create another job that should run only on Friday as Full but on different timing?

No, I mean setting the same job up to run daily at the earlier time, but allowing this for Friday only (using settings at the Schedule step).

[habibalby]

Fine, lets assume the job will start and will trigger automatically that the job should start as Full. But what if for example, I start the job using Script earlier than the time that was scheduled and its finished successful. Will it run again when the time schedule trigger as per the Scheduler that configured in the job?
Or do I have to run another script to disable the job once it's finished by the first script?

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Get-VBRJob -Name "BackupJobName" | Start-VBRJob

Thanks,

[foggy]

Will it run again when the time schedule trigger as per the Scheduler that configured in the job?

Yes, the job will run again. This time it will be incremental run. Though, you can disable the scheduling in job completely (and use Task Scheduler instead).

[habibalby]

Hello,

How can I call the Veeam SnapIn inside the PS1 script?

Add-PsSnapIn VeeamPSSnapIn

The script which I create is very simple

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Get-VBRJob -Name "BackupJobName" | Start-VBRJob

But I believe it requires to run with the Veeam PSS SnapIn...

Thanks,

[foggy]

Correct. Please see this reference for details.

[dellock6]

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asnp "VeeamPSSnapIn" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

I use it at the beginning of every PS script, just to be sure.

Luca.

[habibalby]

Hi Luca,

I used the same at the begging of the script but it doesn't work when it runs using the Task Scheduler in Windows 2008... But when I launch the Veeam PowerShell and switch to the Script Directory and run the X.ps1 script, it works without any issue.


Any idea?
Thanks,

[habibalby]

Hello,
I managed to do it this way;

PowerShell Script contains;

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Add-PSSnapIn -Name VeeamPSSnapIn -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Get-VBRJob -Name "EzProxy" | Start-VBRJob

Another Batch Script to call the powerShell.exe and run the PowerShell Script EzProxy.ps1

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PowerShell.exe G:\Scripts\EzProxy.ps1

This runs successfully.

[habibalby]

Scheduling Veeam Backup Jobs for Daily Incremental and Weekly Full using PowerShell

http://tinyurl.com/982bks7

Thanks,

[cffit]

I have my VEEAM backup jobs run as incremental backups Mon-Sat, then Sunday I have the synthetic fulls run. My weekday backups run from about 8PM-10PM Mon-Sat, but on Sunday since they are doing the synthetic full, they take from 8PM-3AM. This is fine, but for the backups that run after midnight they don't do the synthetic full because that is set to run only on Sundays. So it just does an incremental for those.

My question is, can I somehow have the backups that run on Sunday start ealier, like 5PM or so? As I see now, I can't speficy different times for different days of the same job. Do I have to create to jobs then? One for Mon-Sat, then one for Sunday for each job? Will they still use the same backup folder and be aware of the other job's backups so they remove after X number of backups are on disk? Or how is best to do this?

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Christensen,

This is fine, but for the backups that run after midnight they don't do the synthetic full because that is set to run only on Sundays. So it just does an incremental for those.

If your other backup jobs start after midnight why not to set Monday as a Synthetic full day for them then?

Thanks!

[veremin]

My question is, can I somehow have the backups that run on Sunday start ealier, like 5PM or so?

Yep. Just untick Sunday in the job schedule options, and specify the following script via Windows scheduler to run at 5.00 am on each Sunday:

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Asnp VeeamPSSnapin
Get-VBRJob –name “Name of your Job” | Start-VBRJob

This script is responsible for starting a given job; it's similar to a manual job execution.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.

[cffit]

Hi Christensen,
If your other backup jobs start after midnight why not to set Monday as a Synthetic full day for them then?

Thanks!

If I did that then my backup job would run Monday at 12:15AM and run as full, then it would run again Monday night around 8PM and run another full, thus creating two fulls. Is this something that is addressed to be able to do in the GUI in v7 rather than scripting out and using powershell?

[cffit]

Yep. Just untick Sunday in the job schedule options, and specify the following script via Windows scheduler to run at 5.00 am on each Sunday:

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Asnp VeeamPSSnapin
Get-VBRJob –name “Name of your Job” | Start-VBRJob

This script is responsible for starting a given job; it's similar to a manual job execution.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.

Is there any way to set the backups to follow each other using this method? So when job 1 finishes, then job 2 starts, then when job 2 finishes, job 3 starts? Or would it all be manual scheduling?

[foggy]

If I did that then my backup job would run Monday at 12:15AM and run as full, then it would run again Monday night around 8PM and run another full, thus creating two fulls.

The second job run during the day will be incremental.

[foggy]

Is there any way to set the backups to follow each other using this method? So when job 1 finishes, then job 2 starts, then when job 2 finishes, job 3 starts? Or would it all be manual scheduling?

You can chain the jobs as you normally do this in the job settings (Schedule step).

[veremin]

Or would it all be manual scheduling?

You can either chain them using VB&R GUI (as Alexander mentioned) or add an auditorial part to the script that would be responsible for checking Job status and starting next job when the first one is finished.

Thanks.

[cffit]

The second job run during the day will be incremental.

So if I have my job set to run synthetic fulls on Monday, and the job runs at 12:15AM, it will run a synthetic full. And you are saying when that same job runs at 8PM on Monday night, it will run as incremental even though it is ticked to run synthetic fulls on Mondays?

[cffit]

You can either chain them using VB&R GUI (as Alexander mentioned) or add an auditorial part to the script that would be responsible for checking Job status and starting next job when the first one is finished.

Thanks.

Are there sample scripts that show how to do all this in powershell? I.E. check status of jobs and then running them when predefind other jobs are finished?

[foggy]

So if I have my job set to run synthetic fulls on Monday, and the job runs at 12:15AM, it will run a synthetic full. And you are saying when that same job runs at 8PM on Monday night, it will run as incremental even though it is ticked to run synthetic fulls on Mondays?

Correct.

[foggy]

Are there sample scripts that show how to do all this in powershell? I.E. check status of jobs and then running them when predefind other jobs are finished?

Yes, there are a number of examples available in the corresponding forum, please search.

[cffit]

Correct.

I don't understand how it the same job runs twice in one day, and I have it set to run synthetic fulls on that day, how does it know to do the second one as an incremental and not a full?

[foggy]

how does it know to do the second one as an incremental and not a full?

It's VeeaMagic

[Vitaliy S.]

how does it know to do the second one as an incremental and not a full?

Synthetic full can be run only once a day, it is by design.