Health Check Schedule
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Hi everyone,
I want to set up a backup health check to run weekly or monthly for just a few VMs, but I’m getting stuck on how to properly schedule it.
We currently back up about 90 VMs daily using delta backups, split across multiple jobs. From what I understand, I need to add the health check as another schedule within a job. However, when I try to do this, it asks for a retention setting, which is where I’m getting confused.
Does adding a health check as another schedule in the job actually create an additional backup?
For example, if my backup job runs on Sunday at 9 AM, and I add a health check schedule for Sunday at 2 PM with a retention of 1, what happens?
Does the backup run again at 2 PM before performing the health check?
Does this effectively create two backups on Sundays?
How does the retention setting of 1 affect this process?
Is there a better way to handle this without unintentionally doubling backups?Thanks in advance for any guidance!
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Yes it will run again at 2 a clock
You can attach a tag to the VMs You want to run the check on, and then "enable" it in the schedule
(edit: in the existing 9 a clock job)
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@ph7
Wouldn't that run the health check daily though? I have a daily delta backup but only want to run the health check on the weekends or maybe monthly. I think this is where I am misunderstanding how to set it up. -
@mjr99
You can have the existing schedule run Monday - Saturday, and create a new schedule to run on Sunday only, with force full backup and the health check with a check-tag.
Both schedules in the same job. -
@ph7
Thanks for the help...I think that gets me close. I will tinker with it some more. Thanks again for the answers.