Keeping a surebackup running

[Petta]

How should I make a surebackup running for like a week or so? When I have a surebackup running and the nightly backups start the surebackup is killed. Do I have to create the surebackup job from a backup that is created soley for the surebackup purpose?

Thanks

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[Dima P.]

Hi Petta,

SureBackup is a verification job which could be scheduled to run on a predefined schedule or started manually, so for your case you can schedule sure backup to run after the needed backup job. Here is a reference to Help Center - Creating a SureBackup Job

[dellock6]

Dima, I understood it differently: Petta would like to keep a surebackup job running for many days after it's started. This is not possible in normal circumstances as the new execution of a backup job involving the same backup set will shut down the surebackup job. A workaround quoted in other threads is to copy the backup set, import it as a new backup and use it as a source for surebackup, so that this set will not be used by any incoming backup job.

[Petta]

delloc6, you are absolutely correct in your interpretation of my question I was thinking that your solution might work but beeing on a tight timeframe (and before I read your answer) I just created a new backupjob with all the servers needed. Then I created the surebackup from that job. Is this way okay or is there anything I forgot to think of?

[dellock6]

No, it's ok. As long as the original job that you use to spin up the VMs is not executed, the virtual lab can be powered on as long as you need.