Customizing Jobs › Schedule Custom Jobs

Schedule Custom Jobs

All jobs can all be scheduled using the Schedule options available in each Manager. Jobs can be submitted with a repeat method. For information about repeat methods, see Rotation Schemes or Custom Schedules in this chapter.

If you select the Run Job Now option when your storage device is busy, CA ARCserve Backup reports that the storage device is busy and the job is not submitted to the Job Queue. You should schedule your job, keeping the current date and time. This way, when CA ARCserve Backup discovers that the storage device is busy, it automatically retries the job until the drive becomes free.

You should select the Run Job Now option when:

• The job you are submitting is a one time only job that you want executed immediately.
• You want to monitor the job as it runs.

You should schedule your job when:

• You are submitting a single occurrence job but and you want it to run at a specific time.
• You are submitting a single occurrence job, but you do not want to run it now. You want to submit the job on Hold, and start it manually at a later time.
• You are submitting a job that should run regularly. This is especially useful for setting up a media rotation scheme for your network.
• Your storage device is busy and you want to run a backup job as soon as the drive is free. To do this, schedule your backup job with the current date and time.

For details on how to specify a scheduling option, see the online help.

Important! All scheduled times for CA ARCserve Backup jobs are based upon the time zone where the CA ARCserve Backup server is located. If your agent machine is located in a different time zone than the CA ARCserve Backup server, you will need to calculate the equivalent local time that you want the job to be run.