Data Protector Express User Guide (TC330-96005, September 2011)

Scheduled Dates
This setting is only visible when the schedule type is set to run on selected days. It consists of a list
of selected days to run the job. To add days to or remove days from the schedule, click the
Calendar... button to open the schedule calendar. To schedule the job to run on a day, right-click
on the day in the calendar and select Daily. To unschedule a day, right-click on it and select None.
Interval Settings
This setting is only visible when the job is scheduled to be run repeatedly. It contains controls for
specifying which types of jobs (full, incremental, or differential) will be run on which intervals and
the number of media sets that will be used. You can use the Calendar... button to view of the
schedule. The calendar will show when daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups will be run.
Clicking a day will display a message along the bottom of the dialog explaining the type of job
that will be run, the name of the media that will be created, and whether the media will be
appended to or overwritten. To override the schedule on a an individual day, right-click on the
day and select the new backup type or deselect the day to stop the backup on that day. For more
information see “Scheduling, Rotations, and Media Management” (page 35).
TIP: HP recommends that you deselect holidays from your schedule if you don't have a tape
library or if nobody will be available to put the correct media into the device.
Media to be used
Select the folder in which the job will look for existing media that it can reuse. Note that the default
folder is the current Job folder. If you wish to use media from another folder, specify which folder
by clicking the Add button to open a catalog browser and navigating to the desired folder.
Auto format mode
Auto format mode
Before data can be written to media, the media must be formatted. When media is formatted, any
data on it is lost and all record of the media is removed from the catalog.
No auto format
Instructs Data Protector Express to send an alert to the alert window if it encounters media that
needs to be formatted (either blank or unrecognized media). While waiting for a user reply, Data
Protector Express scans the network for devices with the media it was expecting.
Auto format blank media only
Instructs Data Protector Express to automatically format all new or blank media. However, if Data
Protector Express encounters unrecognized media, it sends an alert to the alert window and then
scans the network for the media it was expecting. This setting can help prevent data from being
accidentally destroyed by formatting, while not needlessly querying the user before formatting a
blank media.
Auto format all media
Instructs Data Protector Express to automatically format all of the media inserted into the tape drive
which require formatting. With this setting selected, Data Protector Express will automatically format
all new or blank media and all unrecognized media.
New media location
Specifies the folder in which Data Protector Express will store any new media created while the
job is run. By default, Data Protector Express stores media under the backup job to ensure the
media isn't used by another backup job. To change the default, click the Browse button and select
the folder from the Browse dialog box.
20 Configuring Backup Jobs