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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Log Only
Specifies the job as a transaction log backup, which backs up the transaction logs.
Note
Log Only option is available for FSBasedBackupSet only.
Job Initiation
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Run Immediately
Specifies this job will run immediately.
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Schedule
Specifies this job will be scheduled. Click Configure to specify the schedule details.
Advanced
Click to select advanced backup options, such as job retry, startup priorities, start new media, data paths, vault tracking and alerts.
Save As Script
Click to open the Save As Scriptdialog, 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 as per need.
For more information on backups performed from the command line, see Command Line Interface for PostgreSQL iDataAgent.