Scheduling

Plakar Control Plane supports three ways to schedule backup operations:

• Manual scheduler: create tasks manually from the UI and attach one or more schedules to run them on a recurring basis
• Policy scheduler: policies automatically schedule tasks based on SLA rules defined for your sources
• User schedulers: each Application user can have its own scheduler, created and managed through the Plakar Control Plane API using that user’s API key

All three trigger the same types of tasks. The manual scheduler gives you direct control from the UI over when and how tasks run, the policy scheduler automates scheduling based on the protection requirements defined in your policies, and user schedulers let external clients manage their own schedules independently through the API.

Backup, check, and sync tasks can also be scheduled declaratively from Kubernetes using the Kubernetes Operator, which is currently the primary example of a user scheduler.