Is it possible to schedule Dataminer backups to happen at different times across different DMAs in a Dataminer system? The scheduling of backups appears to be a global setting, but it feels like it would be safer to not trigger all backups at the same time.
Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 18th July 2023
Hi Dave,
Currently it is not possible to schedule backups at different times per DMA in a cluster. As you mentioned, it is a global setting. However, there is a workaround. When you schedule a DataMiner backup in Cube, a scheduled task is created in the Windows Task Scheduler (on each server):
In the screenshot above, I created the scheduled task to run every day at 01:00h.
You can update this scheduled task at a different time on each server.
However, keep in mind that:
- This update will not be reflected in Cube
- In case you update the scheduled backup in Cube, it will overwrite your changes.
Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 18th July 2023