If more than one automatic schedule is due for a client within a policy, the backup frequency determines the schedule that NetBackup uses, as follows:

• Jobs from the schedule with the lower frequency (longer period between backups) always have higher priority. For example, a schedule with a backup frequency of one year has priority over a schedule with a backup frequency of one month.

• If NetBackup encounters a backup policy with two schedules that are each due to run, the schedule that is first alphabetically runs first.

  Alphabetical priority occurs if both of the following are true:

  • Each schedule is within the defined time window.

  • Each schedule is configured with the same frequency value.

For example, NetBackup prioritizes the following three schedules in the following order:

• monthly_full (frequency is one month)

• weekly_full (frequency is two weeks)

• daily_incremental (frequency is one week)