Trying to understand scheduling

[andreas2012]

Hi,

Trying to understand scheduling, have read some, but need to have it in with a spoon

If I want a backup job to only take 1 full backup each week on Wednesday, is this how it should be solved ?

1. Create a backup job, configure it with incremental, select "create synthetic full backups periodically" and select Wednesday
2. Leave retention policy as 7 days
3. On the schedule screen, select "Daily on these days" and select Wednesday

And....

From the job above I would also like to make a Backup-Copy-Job to another location, where it should only store GFS.
Should I then just select it like this picure ?

https://ibb.co/g4gYFGt

/R
Andy

[PetrM]

Hi Andy,

If you need to run a backup copy job to another location, you should create a separate backup copy job and enable GFS for it.

Thanks!

[chris.childerhose]

Yes if you select those options for your backup job it will create a Synthetic Full every Wednesday for you. Keep in mind to try and use ReFS or XFS for Block Cloning which will speed up the Synthetics.

[andreas2012]

Hi,

Thanks for both answers. ReFS is used.

/R
Andy