What is sesam Newday?
SEPsesam NEWDAY gives System Managers the flexibility to extend backup routines to run after midnight and retain the backup date of the prior day. This is very useful when the computers requiring backup exceed the time allotment between End of Day and midnight. SEP sesam defines the period between two NEWDAY events as one backup day. This event is predetermined at installation and may be adjusted to specific requirements. When a daily NEWDAY event is set to 08:00 the backup day lasts until the morning of the next day 08:00 (8 a.m.). Backups which run after midnight – the real new day – will be administered (recorded) as a backup from the the prior day. Example: The SysAdm begins a backup at 19.00 (7 p.m.) and the projected finish time is 0200 (2 a.m.) By selecting a NEWDAY event at 0800 (8 a.m.) the job will have time to complete and all data will reside on the backup file from the day the job was started. Weekends are often used for full-backups. When this is the case, it is advisable