Weekly schedule

Weekly schedule is effective in Windows and Linux operating systems.

To specify a weekly schedule

In the Schedule area, select the appropriate parameter as follows:

Every: <…> week(s) on: <…>

Specify a certain number of weeks and the days of the week you want the task to be run. For example, with the Every 2 week(s) on Mon setting, the task will be performed on Monday of every other week.

In the During the day execute the task… area, select one of the following:

Once at: <…>

Set up the time at which the task will be run once.

Every: <…>

From: <…> Until: <…>

Set up how many times the task will be run during the specified time interval. For example, setting the task frequency to Every 1 hour From 10:00:00 AM until 10:00:00 PM allows the task to be run 12 times from 10 AM to 10 PM during one day.

In the Effective… area, set the following settings:

From: <…>

Set up a date when this schedule will be enabled (an effective date). If this check box is cleared, the task will be started on the nearest day and time you have specified above.

To: <…>

Set up a date when this schedule will be disabled. If this check box is cleared, the task will be run for an indefinite number of weeks.

Advanced scheduling settings are available only for machines registered on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server. To specify these settings, click Change in the Advanced settings area.

All the settings you made are displayed in the Result field at the bottom of the window. 

  Examples

“One day in the week” schedule

Run the task every Friday at 10PM, starting from a certain date (say 05/14/2009) and ending after six months.

The schedule’s parameters are thus set up as follows.

  1. Every: 1 week(s) on: Fri.
  2. Once at: 10:00:00 PM.
  3. Effective:

    From: 05/13/2009. The task will be started on the nearest Friday at 10 PM.

    To: 11/13/2009. The task will be performed for the last time on this date, but the task itself will still be available in the Tasks view after this date. (If this date were not a Friday, the task would be last performed on the last Friday preceding this date.)

This schedule is widely used when creating a custom backup scheme. The “One day in the week”-like schedule is added to the full backups, while the incremental backups are scheduled to be performed on workdays. For more details, see the Full and incremental backups plus cleanup example in the Custom backup scheme section.

“Workdays” schedule

Run the task every week on workdays: from Monday through Friday. During a workday, the task starts only once at 9 PM.

The schedule’s parameters are thus set up as follows.

  1. Every: 1 week(s) on: <Workdays> – selecting the <Workdays> check box automatically selects the corresponding check boxes (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, and Fri), and leaves the remaining ones unchanged.
  2. Once at: 09:00:00 PM.
  3. Effective:

    From: empty. If you have created the task, say on Monday at 11:30 AM, the task will be started on the same day at 9 PM. If the task was created, say on Friday after 9 PM, then it will be started for the first time on the nearest workday (Monday in our example) at 9 PM.

    End date: empty. The task will be restarted for an indefinite number of weeks.

This schedule is widely used when creating a custom backup scheme. The “Workdays”-like schedule is added to the incremental backups, while the full backup is scheduled to be performed one day in the week. For more details, see the Full and incremental backups plus cleanup example in the Custom backup scheme section.

Several weekly schedules for one task

In the case when the task needs to be run on different days of the weeks with different time intervals, consider adding a dedicated schedule to every desired day of the week, or to several days.

For example, you need the task to be run with the following schedule:

  • Monday: twice at 12 PM (noon) and 9 PM
  • Tuesday: every 3 hours from 9 AM till 9 PM
  • Wednesday: every 3 hours from 9 AM till 9 PM
  • Thursday: every 3 hours from 9 AM till 9 PM
  • Friday: twice at 12 PM and 9 PM (i.e. same as on Monday)
  • Saturday: once at 9 PM
  • Sunday: once at 9 PM

Combining the identical times, the following three schedules can be added to the task:

First schedule

  1. Every: 1 week(s) on: Mon, Fri.
  2. Every: 9 hours

    From: 12:00:00 PM Until: 09:00:00 PM.

  3. Effective:

    From: not set.

    To: not set.

Second schedule

  1. Every 1 week(s) on: Tue, Wed, Thu.
  2. Every 3 hours

    From 09:00:00 AM until 09:00:00 PM.

  3. Effective:

    From: not set.

    To: not set.

Third schedule

  1. Every: 1 week(s) on: Sat, Sun.
  2. Once at: 09:00:00 PM.
  3. Effective:

    From: not set.

    To: not set.

Weekly schedule