Hello,

On 2/23/2006 8:11 PM, Jeremy Koppel wrote:


Hello,

We’ve been using Bacula in our company since the beginning of the year with a good deal of success, but I had a scheduling question that I hadn’t anticipated earlier. As part of our backup rotation, I have 2 additional pools, Offsite1 and Offsite2 (just 1 tape each for now), that are scheduled to be written to on alternating Saturdays. How it actually breaks down is:
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* The Question: *

But I see that we have a problem coming up in April; 5 Saturdays. So if I specify either pool for the 5^th Saturday, we loose our rotation. I see that what we actually need to do is to set these up for ‘every other Saturday’ regardless of when it falls during the month. My question is, how do you do that?

I'd try using the week of year specification in the schedule. You'd simply schedule like

run = pool=offsite1 w01,w03,w05,... sat at 2:00

the problems here: I don't know if this actually works :-) and you still have to worry about the odd number of weeks per year. At least only one a year, and simply by swapping the pool definitions in the job overrides of the schedules...

The better solution, also absolutely untested, would be to use the python interface and implement a simple script that determines which pool to use. I even assume it's impossible at the moment, because in the manual it states that the Pool attribute of a job object in python is read-only... but that might change one fine day :-)

Arno


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