Step 8. Advanced Recurring Schedule
The Recurring Schedule wizard step has different layout depending on the options selected on the Schedule step:
- Once you selected the Recurring (predefined templates) option, refer to the Predefined Templates paragraph
- Once you selected the Recurring (advanced settings) option, refer to the Advanced Settings paragraph
Predefined Templates
- In the Start backup field, specify the date and time of the first backup plan run
- Select the required schedule from the Select schedule template drop-down list. The following schedules are available:
- Full backup every week, block-level backup every day
- Full backup every day, block-level backup every hour
- Full backup every day
- In case you want to customize the schedule templates:
- Select or deselect the Full backup every: check box, and, if the check box is selected, specify the period of an incremental backup run in hours and minutes
- Select or deselect the Block-level every: check box, and, if the check box is selected, specify the period of a block-level backup run in hours and minutes.
Click Next.
Note that block-level backup can be enabled only on Recurring Schedule steps of the backup wizard. To learn more about block-level backup, refer to the Block-Level Backup chapter
Advanced Settings
- Select or deselect the Full backup: check box, then click Edit schedule and specify the period of an incremental backup in the Recurring Schedule Options dialog box. Once you are finished, click OK
- Select or deselect the Block-level: check box, then click Edit schedule and specify the period of a block-level backup in the Recurring Schedule Options dialog box. Once you are finished, click OK
Note that block-level backup can be enabled only on Recurring Schedule steps of the backup wizard. To learn more about block-level backup, refer to the Block-Level Backup chapter
Refer to the following technical blog post to learn more about the difference between full and block-level backup types:
Click Next to proceed to the Pre / Post Actions step.