Copying jobs, selection lists, or policies

Backup Exec enables you to copy all jobs (including backup, report, and utility jobs), selection lists, and policies that were created on your media server to the same media server, or to another media server.

To copy jobs, selection lists, or polices to other media servers, the Copy Server Configurations feature must be installed.

See About Backup Exec’s standard features.

After you select the items to copy and the media server to which you want to copy the items, the operation is queued. The default time-out is five minutes; if the transfer cannot be completed within five minutes, the transfer is terminated and an alert is issued. The queue checks for copy jobs every 60 seconds, and then sends all the copy jobs that are queued.

Backup Exec sends an alert with the job success or failure status along with a log file that allows you to view results. The job log for Copy to Media Server jobs does not display with the other job logs in the Job History.

To copy jobs, selection lists, or policies

  1. On the media server’s navigation bar, click Job Setup.

  2. Select the job, backup selection list, or policy you want to copy.

  3. In the task list, under General Tasks, click Copy.

  4. Select the media server to which you want to copy the job, selection list, or policy, and then select any applicable overwrite options

    See Copy to Media Server options.

  5. Click OK.

Copying jobs, selection lists, or policies