After you complete these steps, you need to adjust the properties a little for the job:
1. Browse to the Task Scheduler Library and verify the reoccurring vCenter Database job appears in the right pane.
2. Select the task, right-click, and select the properties of the newly created batch job, as shown in Figure 21.
Figure 21. Right-click properties.
3. Ensure Run Whether the User Is Logged On or Not is selected, as shown in Figure 22. Then select Change User or Group... and ensure the job is running under the proper credentials.
Figure 22. Select the user under which to run the task.
The preceding
description is just a sample of how you can ensure you have regular
full backups running if you have opted to run SQL Express. You might
want to fine-tune your settings to keep several weeks’ worth of full
backups and also to move them to a separate location.
Differential
If your database is getting too big for a
full backup, you can perform a differential backup. A differential
backup copies any changes made since the last full backup job. It is
designed to reduce the time needed to perform a full backup. You can
make your backup job a differential job by adding the WITH DIFFERENTIAL
statement, as shown in Figure 23.
In this case, your final backup strategy adds a combination of full and
differential backups, so you must ensure you have access to all the
backup files.
Figure 23. WITH DIFFERENTIAL command.
Log Backups
The third type of backup does not copy the
changes; it copies only the transactional logs of the database. After
the logs are copied, the portions of the log files not needed for
active transactions are truncated. For regular maintenance, it is a
good practice to back up your log files daily.
When you are happy with your
scheduled job, you can quickly apply it to the remaining databases
because the jobs are exportable to XML files from the Task Scheduler
console. Simply export the job as an XML file, make some edits so that
it can be applied to the other databases, and reimport it. In general,
the VMware Update Manager View Composer or Event databases do not
require the same frequency of backups as the vCenter database.
