I'm not sure I understand the question -- jobs behave the same way
whether they are run by the scheduler or if they are run from the
console. Incidentally, what I meant was that I clicked on the calendar
in Data Protector and scheduled each monthly backup by hand (actually,
did them monthly but modified those that fell on weekends), meaning that
I had monthly backups except certain months and special backups on the
first weekday of those special months, etc.. I'm not actually sure how
you would handle something like this in bacula, as the schedules are
defined prior to launch of the daemons and I'm not aware of any
capability to add to the schedule from the console. But you could
manually run these backups from the console on the day in question.
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Jeremy Koppel wrote:
Actually, just handling it manually is an interesting option, too, as we
need manual intervention to take the tape offsite anyway. But how does
Bacula handle a restore in that event? If you do differentials the rest
of the week, does it diff from your automated Sunday full backup, or
does it start with your full, manual, offsite backup, thus requiring you
to have it onhand in the event of a restore?
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Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling question
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,
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:
...
* 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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