Edit Exchange Server Backup Schedule

Overview

This section gives information about how to edit a configured Exchange Server backup schedule in .

How to get here in the Web Console?

In the top menu, select: "Backup->List Backup Schedules". From the list of backup schedules, click on the edit icon in the Action column of the MS Exchange Server backup schedule that you want to edit.

Edit Exchange Server Backup Schedule

This page is used to edit a configured MS Exchange Server backup schedule. Note that only some of the configuration options are editable.

Edit the Exchange Server backup schedule details as required. The following options are editable:

Also keep a copy locally [If already disabled and enabled now, doing an additional full backup is mandatory]

CPU Utilization settings

Temporary location for backup dumps

Full Backup Scheduling settings

Synthetic Full Backup Scheduling settings

Log Backup Scheduling settings

Max. No. of Full backups to be retained in the server

Run this backup every 5 minutes in case of non completion because of a problem (Network error etc.)

The following options are additional configurable options:

Run additional full backup after saving this configuration:
When this option is selected will take an additional full backup for the Exchange Server database(s) configured in this schedule after saving this configuration.

Run additional synthetic full backup after saving this configuration:
When this option is selected will take an additional synthetic full backup for the Exchange Server databases after saving this configuration. Please refer this article for more details on Synthetic Full Backup of Exchange Server.

Suspend Backup
This option shows the status of this backup schedule, whether it is suspended or not. And the same option can be edited and saved to suspend the backup schedule.

Please note that the following options are not editable:

Compression type

Encryption (and password)

Backup Server(s)

Troubleshooting Tips

Limitations

Some of the backup schedule parameters cannot be edited. Editing settings like compression, encryption etc will make the new backup data and the old backup data (already backed up) incompatible.

Storage Groups/Databases configured for the backup schedule cannot be removed or additional Storage Group/Database cannot be added into the backup schedule.