Using the Backup Wizard in SAS Management Console

Use Schedule Manager to Schedule a Backup Job That Was Created by the Backup Wizard

If your deployment plan included either Platform Suite for SAS or an Operating System Services Scheduling Server, then you can use the Schedule Manager in SAS Management Console to schedule a backup job.

For example, if you have configured an Operating System Services Scheduling Server on Windows, then you would follow these steps to schedule a backup job:

Log on to SAS Management Console as a user who is in the SAS Administrators group. On Windows systems, the user must also be a member of the Windows Administrators group.
Make sure that the Server Manager tree includes an OS Scheduling Server. (This component must be installed and configured by using the SAS Deployment Wizard.)
Expand the Metadata Manager node, the Metadata Utilities node, and the Backup & Restore node.

A list of previously created backup and restore jobs appears in the right pane.
To deploy a job for scheduling, right-click the job and select Deploy for Scheduling. The job is placed in the deployment directory that has been defined for metadata server utility jobs.
To place the job in a flow, right-click the Schedule Manager node and select New Flow. In the New flow dialog box, do the following:
1. Enter a name for the flow.
2. In the Scheduling Server field, select Operating System Services.
3. Move the backup job from the Available Items list to the Selected Items list.
4. Click OK.
To schedule the flow, right-click the flow in the Schedule Manager tree and select Schedule Flow. In the Schedule Flow dialog box, do the following:
1. Click Options.
2. In the Trigger Options dialog box, click New Time Event.
3. In the New Time Event dialog box, select the desired values for Recurrence, Interval, Time, and Date Range, as shown in the following example:
  
  Click OK in the New Time Event, Trigger Options, and Schedule Flow dialog boxes.
On Windows systems, you must edit the scheduled job so that it will be run with the appropriate user credentials. By default, the Windows Task Scheduler uses the LOCAL SYSTEM user account to execute scheduled jobs. However, backup jobs must be run by a user who has the credentials that are described in Ensure Appropriate User Credentials.

To provide the appropriate user ID and password, open the Windows Control Panel, select Scheduled Tasks, right-click the job that you just scheduled, and select Properties. In the job properties dialog box, enter the appropriate user ID in the Run as field, click Set password to enter the password, and click OK to save your changes.

When the job is executed, a log is written to the following location:

SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\SASMeta\BatchServer\Logs

For information about additional scheduling options, such as setting up dependencies among jobs or using Platform Suite for SAS, see Scheduling in SAS.

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