Daily incremental backup job of  the virtual machine under Exchange and SQL folder in vCenter, Incremental forever with consistency check.

TSM: SERVER1> define sched vmware Daily_Incr Desc=’Daily Incremental Backup of Exchange and SQL VM’ Action=Backup Subaction=VM OPTions=’-vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=VC1_DC1 -domain.vmfull=”vmfolder=Exchange,SQL” -MODE=IFIncremental -VMVERIFYIFAction=FORCEfull’  day=Weekday startt=20:00

Daily incremental backup job of  the virtual machine under Exchange and SQL folder in vCenter.

TSM: SERVER1> define sched vmware Daily_Incr Desc=’Daily Incremental Backup of Exchange and SQL VM’ Action=Backup Subaction=VM OPTions=’-vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=VC1_DC1 -domain.vmfull=”vmfolder=Exchange,SQL” -MODE=INCRemental’  day=Weekday startt=20:00

Weekly full backup job of the virtual machines under the Exchange and SQL folder in vCenter. The job

runs on every second, third, fourth, last (if any) Saturday of each month.

TSM: SERVER1> define sched vmware Weekly_Full Schedstyle=Enhanced Desc=’Weekly Full Backup of Exchange and SQL VM’ Action=Backup Subaction=VM OPTions=’-vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=VC1_DC1 -domain.vmfull=”vmfolder=Exchange,SQL” -MODE=FULL’ DAYofweek=Saturday WEEKofmonth=’Second,Third,Fourth,Last’ startt=00:00:00

Monthly archive (use –vmmc to decide the management class) the virtual machines running on host-01
and host-02. The jobs runs on every first Saturday of each month.

TSM: SERVER1> define sched vmware Monthly_Archive Schedstyle=Enhanced Desc=’Host 01 02 Monthly Full Backup – Archive for 1 year’  Action=Backup Subaction=VM OPTions=’-vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=VC1_DC1 -vmmc=Monthly -domain.vmfull=”VMHOST=host-01.sandbox.local,host-02.sandbox.local” -MODE=FULL’ DAYofweek=Saturday WEEKofmonth=First Startt=00:00:00

Immediate Full backup job of all virtual machines in vCenter except VM1 and VM2.

TSM: SERVER1> define sched vmware Manual_Backup Desc=’Manual Backup all VM except VM1, VM2’ Action=Backup Subaction=VM OPTions=’-vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=VC1_DC1 -domain.vmfull=”all-vm; -vm=VM1,VM2″ -MODE=FULL’ startd=today startt=now

The following sample server command defines a schedule that is compatible with tagging:

TSM: SERVER1> define schedule vmware tagged_backup description='TAGGING' Action=Backup Subaction=VM options='-vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=VC1_DC1 -domain.vmfull="Schedule-Tag" -mode=IFIncremental' starttime=23:10 schedstyle=Classic period=1 perunits=Weeks durunits=minutes duration=10  

The following sample server command defines a schedule for one VM:

TSM: SERVER1> DEFINE SCHEDULE VEMONTHLY MONTHLY-IFFULL Type=Client ACTion=Backup SUBACTion=VM OPTions='-vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=TSMVE_DCMONTHLY -domain.vmfull="VM=MY-TEST-REDHAT" -MODE=IFFull' STARTDate=10/31/2014 STARTTime=08:00:00 SCHEDStyle=Enhanced WEEKofmonth=first DAYofweek=Sunday 

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