I learned that things like this were a problem when I started using
bacula, as there is no easy way to schedule it. As it was, with Data
Protector, I had been doing it by hand anyway. Doing the 1st and 3rd
Tuesday is how I ultimately handled the situation. We don't have off
hours staff anyway, and I had to try to avoid Monday and Friday since
they are often holidays.
Martin Simmons wrote:
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:42:09 +0100, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Hello,
On 2/23/2006 8:11 PM, Jeremy Koppel wrote:
Hello,
Weve 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 hadnt 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:
...
* 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 :-)
Another way is to run both jobs every week and have a RunBeforeJob script that
returns an non-zero exit status if it is the wrong week (which causes the job
to abort).
__Martin
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