The final step in creating a protection plan is to set a schedule for when the plan will execute.


The software allows you to schedule a protection plan to run daily, weekly, monthly or even hourly. You can also finish creating your protection plan without setting a schedule.



Choosing No Schedule


Creating a schedule for your protection plan is highly recommended. However, the software does not force you to create a schedule if you do not want to create a schedule. You can finish creating a protection plan without creating a schedule by clicking the "No Schedule" option. If you choose the "No Schedule" option you will need to manually execute your protection plan in order to backup the data that you selected. Refer to the topic Running a Plan for more information.



Creating a Daily schedule


You can schedule your protection plan to run daily by simply clicking the Daily option and choosing a time for the plan to run.



Creating a Weekly schedule


You can schedule your protection plan to execute once a week by choosing the Weekly option. Click the Weekly option and then click the down arrows at the right of the panel to choose the day of the week and time of day that the plan will run.



Creating a Monthly schedule


A plan can be scheduled to run once a month by clicking the Monthly option. You can choose which day of the month, 1 through 31, that your plan will execute by scrolling the "Day" text box. You can choose the time of the day that your plan will execute by scrolling the "At" text box and choosing a time.



See Advanced for details on this option.

See Run this plan only when logged on for details on this option.



Completing the protection plan


Click "Finish" to complete your protection plan. The plan will be saved and appear on the Home page under "My Saved Protection Plans".


If you want to change any of your choices click "Previous" to view the prior tabs or click the tab itself. When you have completed your changes click "Next" to move to the Schedule tab, or click the "Schedule" tab, and click "Finish". The software will change to the Home page and the saved protection plan will be shown. See the Home topic for more information.