Backup schedule periodically every n number of minutes/hours is a not customizable. It selects a random time and other jobs takes over the same schedule time with similar schedule.
Time periods also of no use as it doesn’t run if a specific time is selected. This should be permitted 24 hours or else the job won’t run. It all depends on the random time selected by the job.
It is a disaster that multiple jobs will run at same and throws errors.
+23Hi,
Theres a fair bit of detail missing here on what specifically you’re trying to do and what the difference between expected & actual results are, but have you looked at the powershell management capabilities as that exposes additional configuration options such as offsets for the periodic schedule:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbo365/powershell/set-vbojobschedulepolicy.html?ver=80
Regarding scheduling in my case,
I have got 8 jobs. I need to run these at different intervals, 2 hours, 4 hours, 8 hours and 12 hours.
For eg. Job1 and Job2 is scheduled to run at every 2 hours but there is no option to select a specific time to start the job. I need job 1 to start at 1 PM and job2 at 2 pm. and subsequent jobs run it 3 and 4 pm. But what happens here is, if job1 scheduled, it will select a random time and job2 will also be scheduled to run at same time because both jobs are running at same intervals.
If job 3 is scheduled to run at every 4 or 8 hours and another job with same interval will also run at the same time.
Basically, all jobs that is scheduled to run at a specific interval will all run at same time and take a time that is with odd numbers, 1, 3, 5 only and you cannot select a job to run at 2, 4 or as such.
In addition to that, if any of these are not permitted for 24 hours in time periods window, these jobs wont’ run at all.
+21Hi
You are able to select a specific time when you click the Schedule link when selecting the Periodic schedule option. Though, you can’t configure a time explicitly like the 1st scheduling option (Daily at...), you can configure an on-the-hour time in the Periodic >Schedule area. See my screenshot below:
The numbers at the top of the schedule refer to the time, starting with midnight (12) at the far left top, and ending at midnight at the far right. In the example above, I have this job running every 4 hours in the Periodic screen, then the Schedule for the Job has it starting at 8am M-F, noon M-F, 4pm M-F, and 8pm M-F; then on Sat/Sun, it runs at 8pm only. Does that make sense?
So, for further explanation...using my screenshot above, let’s configure your Job1 Job. In the main Schedule window, you configure like:
Then, within the Schedule, you’d configure it something like below:
What I configured above is your Job1 starting at 1pm. To do this, click the “Permitted” option to the right, then click/drag the blocks in the main window the times and days you want the Job to run. What I configured above, without knowing a bit more of your Job Schedule requirement, is confgured Job1 to start at 1pm and go all the way to midnight. So, it would run at 1p, 3p, 5p, 7p, 9p, and 11p on M-Fs only. If you want weekends as well, just highlight (enable) those with the “Permitted” option as well.
Does that make sense? Doesn’t that do what you’re wanting to achieve with your schedule?
Best.
+21Actually
You can still do “windows” of a periodic schedule as I shared above. I don’t use VB365, so I assume you can choose your 2hr timeframe? Since I don’t have it, I can’t verify this. Or, is that what you’re inquiring about that VB365 scheduling lacks? You can’t explicitly change the period of time to be “2 hrs”?...Veeam only has ‘default’ times in the drop-down? If that is the case, are you not able to manually type in the explicit time you need in that box to override the drop-down time?
Best.
Yes, it was about VB365. This periodic scheduling option is not working as it is in vbr.
You cannot explicitly select a time to start a job, rather it is scheduled by itself. This is regardless of whether you permit or deny This causes other jobs also takes the same schedules even if ‘’ every n hours” is different.
In my case all jobs are automatically select time that are odd numbers. I raised ticket on this, but they say, the time is hard coded and cannot be explicitly selected. Don’t know why they hard coded the timing and then giving the option to select time periods.
So weird.
+21Ah, ok
About the only other suggestion I can offer is to go over to the Forums and ask for a feature request from the Veeam Product Managers. They can, at the very least, probably offer a roadmap on if (or when if it’s already been discussed) this can be added to the VB365 product.
Best.
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