Problem
When creating a Backup Exec Forever Incremental backup policy, certain scheduling rules will be applied.
Backup jobs created for a Forever Incremental backup policy:
The first two job templates (Forever Incremental and Consolidate Full) are added by default to a Forever Incremental backup definition. You can also add a third job template (Full). You can navigate to the templates from Backup Options > Schedule tab.
Forever Incremental
Use this template to get data from the source virtual machine with the VMware or Hyper-V backup methods. If it is the first job that runs as a part of the Forever Incremental solution, it backs up the full data from the source virtual machine.Consolidate Full
Use this template to consolidate all backup sets available since the last full backup and create a new full backup set on the Backup Exec server. The Consolidate Full backup runs locally on the Backup Exec server and does not connect to the virtualization host or the virtual machine that is backed up. Subsequent incremental backups refer to this Consolidate Full backup as the baseline.Full
Add this job template to run a full backup from the source virtual machine (protect the virtual machine directly from the source) as per the defined schedule.
Scheduling Rules:
There are two scheduling rules:
- Priority
The job with least frequency has higher priority - Scheduling Collision with the Consolidate Full
Full/ Forever Incremental has priority and runs first
Consolidate Full runs immediately after Full/ Forever Incremental
Example:
Forever Incremental backup policy contains the following jobs:
- Forever Incremental scheduled to run every day at 11pm
- Consolidate Full scheduled to run every Saturday at 11pm
- Full scheduled to run every last Saturday of the month at 11pm
On the day when all three jobs are scheduled to run at the same time, these jobs will run in the following order:
1. Full will run first (the least frequent job as per Priority rule)
2. Forever Incremental will run next (because of the Schedule Collision rule)
3. Consolidate Full will run next.
All three jobs will run.
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