Hi,
> I'm working on writing a perl script that will backup volumes in my
> AFS cell by dumping them to a NFS share. I'm running this as a
> RunBeforeJob script using some of the variable expansion features of
> bacula to fill in the arguments to the script. I have a question
> regarding the behavior of the %s (since time) expansion:
> I'm doing full backups the 1st sunday of the month, differentials on
> sunday and incrementals every other day. If on the 2nd sunday of the
> month (1st differential of the month) will %s be expanded to the date
> of the full backup on the first sunday or will it be expanded to the
> date of the last job that ran (the incremental that ran saturday)?
I have made this small test
Job {
Name = "Client1"
JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
RunBeforeJob = "/bin/echo %s"
}
and i have run this
run level=Full Client1
Start time: 20-fév-2007 09:35:32
=> BeforeJob: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
run level=Incremental Client1
Start time: 20-fév-2007 09:36:51
=> BeforeJob: 2007-02-20 09:35:32
run level=Differential Client1
Start time: 20-fév-2007 09:37:24
=> BeforeJob: 2007-02-20 09:35:32
run level=Incremental Client1
Start time: 20-fév-2007 09:37:42
=> BeforeJob: 2007-02-20 09:37:24
Everything works as expected i think.
> I could not find any definitive answer in the manual and couldn't
> find it right away when looking at the source.
>
> Also is there any timeframe of when (or even if) the format of the
> timestamp will be user configurable? I saw some comments in lib/
> btime.c about it and I for one would find this very handy.
This is an ISO output, so, if you are using perl, you can convert this very
easily (you can try Date::ParseDate)
Bye
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