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The scheduled time is displayed according to the time zone set on the machine from which you are

logged in to the backup service. If you schedule backups to run, say, at 07:00, they will run when your

machine clock reaches 07:00, regardless of the time zone where the vCloud infrastructure is

physically located. If you change the time zone setting on the machine, the schedule will not change,

but you will see different start time.

The following schedule types and the corresponding retention rules are available:

Daily backup

Schedule. Select the days of week and the time when to run backups.

Retention rules. Specify how long you want to retain the backups.

By default, the backups will run Monday through Friday at 22:00. The resulting backups will be

retained for one week.

Weekly backup

With this schedule, the backups will run once in the specified number of weeks.

Schedule

1. Select the number of weeks.

2. Select the day of week and the time to run backups.

By default, the backups will run every week at 22:00, on the day of week on which the backup plan

was created.

Retention rules

Specify how long you want to retain the backups.

By default, the backups will be retained for four weeks.

GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son)

This schedule is useful for long-term storage of backups.

With this schedule, you have a single backup for each of the recent days and for each of the recent

weeks. For earlier periods of time, you have a single backup for each month.

Schedule

1. Select the days of week and the time when to run backups.

2. Out of these days of week, choose the one to Do weekly/monthly backups on. Backups that are

performed on that day will be considered as weekly backups and monthly backups. Backups that

are performed on other days will be considered as daily backups.

By default, the backups will run Monday through Friday at 22:00. Friday is chosen for

Weekly/Monthly backups.

Retention rules

Specify how long you want to retain the daily, weekly, and monthly backups.

The default settings are the following:

 Daily backups: 5 days (recommended minimum)

 Weekly backups: 7 weeks