These settings add more flexibility to the scheduler, enabling it to execute a backup with respect to certain conditions. With multiple conditions, all of them must be met simultaneously to enable a backup to start. Start conditions are not effective when a backup is started manually.
To access these settings, click Show more when setting up a schedule for a protection plan.
The scheduler behavior, in case the condition (or any of multiple conditions) is not met, is defined by the Backup start conditions backup option. To handle the situation when the conditions are not met for too long and further delaying the backup is becoming risky, you can set the time interval after which the backup will run irrespective of the condition.
The table below lists the start conditions available for various data under Windows, Linux, and macOS.
WHAT TO BACK UP |
Disks/volumes or files (physical machines) |
Disks/volumes (virtual machines) |
ESXi configuration |
Office 365 mailboxes |
Exchange databases and mailboxes |
SQL databases |
Windows |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
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Windows, Linux, macOS |
Windows, Linux |
Windows, Linux |
Windows |
Windows |
Windows |
|
Windows |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
|
Windows, Linux, macOS |
Windows, Linux |
– |
– |
– |
– |
|
Windows |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
|
Windows |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
|
Windows |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
|
Windows |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |