If you have a task that recurs on a regular basis, such as a nightly backup, you can schedule it as a recurring job. You only schedule recurring jobs once, and then Batch Services automatically runs all future occurrences of the job for you.
As an example, we will schedule a system backup to run every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:00 PM, starting on the first of September 2014. To do this:
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Open Intergraph Batch Manager and select the queue to which you want to submit the recurring job.
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Select Job > Submit.
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Browse for and select the backup script that you want to run.
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Select the Scheduling tab.
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Select weekly job frequency by choosing the Weekly radio button.
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Select a weekly frequency of every 1 week.
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Select the Tuesday and Thursday checkboxes, making sure that no other checkboxes are selected.
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Set the effective date to September 1, 2014.
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Set the start time to 19:00 (7:00 PM). The Next Occurrence field will note that the first occurrence of the backup job will be run on Thursday, September 1, 2014 at 7:00 PM.