You can use backup management groups to perform simultaneous backups, on a schedule that you can customize. You can schedule backups on a Standard, Weekly, or Daily basis using the backup management groups.
Suppose you want to make backups at regular intervals between 7:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. You want to keep the last backup of the day and retain it for a few weeks, and you want to keep one backup per week for several months for archiving.
To achieve this using backup management groups, you can use the Standard backup management group for the backups during the day. Use a separate backup job to create one backup in the Daily management group at the end of the day. Then, once a week, you can use another job to create a backup in the Weekly backup management group.
You can then decide how many backup copies to retain independently for each backup management group. For example, you can keep ten standard backups, seven daily backup copies (one week’s worth), and four weekly backup copies (one month’s worth).
If your daily or weekly backup job fails for any reason, you can replace it with the most recent successful standard backup by changing its backup management group.