On 3 May 2006 at 9:07, Karl Cunningham wrote: > On 5/3/2006 6:36 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 3 Dec 2004 at 9:49, Karl Cunningham wrote: > > > >> Does anyone have an idea how to do a schedule for the *day before* the > >> first Saturday of the month? > >> > >> We do a full backup on the first Saturday of the month, but want the > >> incremental backups the day before to start earlier than other Friday jobs, > >> so they're sure to be done in time to change the media before we go home > >> that day. Usually that would fall on the first Friday of the month, > >> sometimes the fifth, once in a great while the fourth. > >> > >> If there is no way to do this with the existing system, one thing I think > >> would work is a "timeoffset=nnn" as part of a schedule resource. nnn would > >> be an integer number of minutes that would add to the time that is > >> otherwise specified in the schedule. Negative values of nnn would subtract > >> time. Something like this: > >> > >> Run = timeoffset=-1440 dec first Saturday at 16:01 > >> > >> Ideas? Thoughts? > > > > What about this: > > > > Schedule a job for every Friday. Include a RunBeforeJob option in > > that job. In that script, check to see if tomorrow is the first > > Saturday of the month. If it is, proceed. If it is not, error out > > and the backup job will not run. > > > > If you don't like error'd out jobs, set up a cron job to do the same > > as above, but instead of proceeding, it invokes bconsole, and runs > > the job. > > Dan -- > > Thanks for the suggestion. I like this. We've mostly gotten around the > problem in other ways but not always the ideal. Your idea could probably > be done with only a small shell script on the server.
If it works, please post the script for the next person. ;) -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
