Novell Doc: PlateSpin Portability Suite 8.1 User Guide

5.7 Scheduling and Synchronization

An important element of a conversion job is scheduling. Scheduling options enable you to specify:

Whether the conversion job is to run immediately or on a specific date and a specific time. For information on other options that Portability Suite provides for saving and executing jobs, see Setting Up, Executing, and Managing Jobs.
Whether to enable incremental synchronization of the target with the source. This establishes a protection contract for workload or workload image protection jobs with two synchronization schedules: full and incremental.

To access scheduling options of a conversion job:

In Advanced mode: In the Conversion Job window, under the Job Configuration section, click Schedule.
In Wizard mode: In the wizard’s navigation pane, click Schedule.

To edit either schedule, select the Enable Synchronization option, then click Edit Schedule.

NOTE:Synchronizations require the Live Transfer method. If Live Transfer is not supported for a particular conversion, this option is disabled.

If the schedules of an incremental and a full synchronization coincide, the full synchronization takes precedence. For example, if a full synchronization is scheduled for every Sunday at 1:00:00 a.m., and an incremental synchronization is scheduled to run every day at 1:00:00 a.m., on Sundays at 1:00:00 a.m. only a full synchronization runs.

5.7.1 Working with the Recurrence Editor

The Recurrence Editor enables you to specify scheduling options for synchronizing your target VM or Flexible Image with changes on your source workload. Depending on your conversion requirements, you can specify a schedule for a full synchronization or incremental synchronization.

To edit either schedule, click Edit Schedule in your job’s schedule. Options displayed in the Recurrence Editor dialog box depend on prior job configuration selections.

These settings control the recurrence pattern of incremental and full transfers.

Hourly : Use this option to set the hourly interval for your transfers.

Daily: Use this option to set the number of days between transfers.

Weekly: Use this option to schedule the number of weeks between transfers and on what days of the week to do the transfer.

Monthly: Use this option to define a monthly interval for incremental transfers.

None: Select this option to disable incremental or full transfers; for example, when you are planning to perform transfers at a later time or manually.

Start of Recurrence : Specify the start date and time for the transfers.