About schedules for BLI backup policies
The NetBackup server starts these schedule types:
Full Backup
Differential Incremental Backup
Cumulative Incremental Backup
Each BLI backup policy must include one full backup schedule and at least one incremental backup schedule. In addition, you must designate one of the BLI backup policies as the POLICY_IN_CONTROL. The policies for each stream must have the same types of schedules.
The NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I describes other schedule attributes and how to configure them.
You can configure the following types of schedules:
User-directed backup schedule. The user-directed backup schedule encompasses all the days and times when user-directed backups are allowed to occur. Set the backup window as described.
The policies for each stream must have the same types of schedules.
Automatically initiated backup schedules. Include server-initiated backup schedules to specify the days and times for NetBackup to automatically start backups of the files specified in the policy file list. Set the backup window as described.
For server-initiated full and incremental backup schedules, set the start times and durations to define the appropriate windows for the backups. Follow the same procedure used to define backup schedules for other policies. For more information on these procedures, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
The backups are started by the scheduler only within the backup window specified. For the POLICY_IN_CONTROL, include in the user-directed backup schedule the time periods when the BLI backup policies complete.
Set the retention level and periods to meet user requirements.