Performing a fully automated backup

In BRMS, you can start and run a system backup without using the interactive console monitor. This ability allows you to run your system backups unattended.

To run a fully automated backup, you must make sure that you have enough tape capacity so that your backup can run without getting tape volume mount messages. For example, if you schedule an automated system backup over the weekend, you need to verify that the tape device and enough expired tapes are available before leaving for the weekend. You can use Global Policy Properties to ensure that you specify enough time for the backup to run.

To schedule a fully automated backup, follow these steps:

Select Backup, Recovery, and Media Services > Backup Control Groups > Open action item.
Choose the control group you want to run and select Schedule action item.
On the Run Backup Control Group *System - Backup Overrides window, clear the Use interactive console monitor check box and click OK.
Note: To do this, you need to clear the Only use interactive console monitor check box on the general page of Global policy properties first.