Creating Avamar backup schedules from CLI
Creating an avamar schedule for your backup policies is a must for any systems administrator. This article provides a one-liner on how to perform this task.
For this example we will create a backup schedule with the following attributes:
| Schedule name | DAILY_BACKUP |
| Avamar domain | / (root domain) (ie: available to all policies) |
| Run date/time | Weekdays, starting 18h00 |
| Backup window duration | 12h00 |
| Timezone | London |
We use the mccli command with the schedule add to create the desired schedule. Therefore to create the schedule using the above information, we would perform:
avmod1:~/#: mccli schedule add --name=DAILY_BACKUP --domain=/ --days=Mu,Tu,W,Th,F --start=18:00 --duration=12:00 --tz=Europe/London
A similar exercise to create a backup schedule to have a weekly schedule that starts at 02h00 on a Saturday only and have a backup window for 24 hours. We could execute the following:
avmod1:~/#: mccli schedule add --name=WEEKLY_BACKUP --domain=/ --days=Sa --start=02:00 --duration=24:00 --tz=Europe/London