Use this dialog box to schedule or immediately run a backup job.
Select Backup Type
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Full
Specifies the job as a full backup, which backs up all data for the selected subclients.
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Incremental
Specifies the job as an incremental backup, which backs up only that portion of the data that is new or has changed since the last backup.
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Logs
Specifies the job as a transaction log backup, which backs up the transaction logs.
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Data
Backs up data during an incremental backup.
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Synthetic Full
Specifies the job as a synthetic full backup, creates a full backup from the existing backup data of the selected subclient. The synthetic full backup consolidates the backup data. It does not back up data from the client computer.
Do not truncate log
Specifies that the transaction logs will not be deleted after a successful log backup.
Job Initiation
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Immediate
Specifies that this job will run immediately.
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Schedule
Specifies that this job will be scheduled. Click Configure to specify the schedule details.
Advanced
Click to select advanced backup options, such as set priority, job retry, start new media, mark media as full, Vault Tracking etc.
Save As Script
Click to open the Save As Script dialog, which allows you to save this operation and the selected options as a script file (in XML format). The script can later be executed from the Command Line Interface using qoperation execute command.
When you save an operation as a script, each option in the dialog will have a corresponding XML parameter in the script file. When executing the script, you can modify the value for any of these XML parameters.
For more information on backups performed from the command line, see Command Line Interface - MySQL iDataAgent.