We recently cut over from Commvault to VEEAM B&R for our server backups. When I originally setup the jobs, I set them up like this:
Name: Daily/Weekly Cluster X Backup
Run Time: Daily @ 9:00PM
Type: Incremental
Active full backup: Weekly on Sunday
I was not sure how long the first full would take, so I manually kicked off the chain at 9:00AM on Sunday and monitored and saw it took until about 11:00PM to finish all the full jobs. Subsequent incrementals take a fraction of the time.
My question is this, given the fact that I cannot modify the time when the active full will begin, and given the fact that I really do not want to have to modify the time every weekend after the Saturday incrementals complete so the Sunday fulls will run at 9:00am instead of 9:00pm, can I do this instead to split the two?
Name: Daily Cluster X Backup
Run Time: Daily @ 9:00PM
Type: Incremental (No Full, no Synthetic)
AND
Name: Weekly Cluster X Backup
Run Time: Sundays @ 9:00AM
Type: Full (No Incremental)
And if I can do that, do I just need to set the weekly job's Active full backup to weekly on Sunday, and then in the schedule menu choose to run the job Sunday's at 9:00AM?
I hope that made sense, it's a little difficult to explain
Thank you!