Backup Group Configuration

Use Backup groups to designate what time a client's scheduled backup starts. You can assign client save sets to Backup groups to control which client's save sets back up at which times. You can also assign a client's save sets to more than one group.

If you have an especially large number of client machines, consider creating several groups with different start times to help reduce network traffic. For example, you could start the backup time of the group that includes the engineering department's machines at four o'clock in the morning, and the group with all other clients on the network at midnight.

If you create different groups, be sure to stagger their start times to avoid overloading the server. Schedule them far enough apart so that one group has completed its backup before the next group starts. Backup does not start a new group's backup until all the groups with earlier start times are finished. See "Example: Scheduling Large Client Filesystems".