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Rich wrote:
> On 2007.10.30. 17:51, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
>> Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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>>> Are you certain that the DST dates did not move in your area? I'm not
>>> sure which zones expanded DST and which did not. I realize that is not
>>> your question, but it is something I wanted to mention, since my
>>> timezone does not switch until Nov 4th.
>>>
>>> That said, I'd expect Bacula will skip the backup, given its behavior in
>>> this case. One way to solve this problem, I guess, would be to never
>>> start backups between 2 and 3 AM.
>> yup.
>>
>> Daylight Savings time laws changed affective spring 2007 in the U.S. and 
>> Australia. I have no clue about the Czech Republic or others. There were 
>> patches to be applied according to your operating system. I applied 
>> Solaris 9 patches. Mac OS X and Windows systems got theirs by automatic 
>> updates. One of our labs had an older Sun OS 5.6 system for which there 
>> were no patches. After messing with it for a while, they finally punted 
>> and said it didn't really matter.
> ...
> 
> i don't think timezone changes was the question here :)
> 
> actual question would be - how does bacula actually handle these times.
> i also had one job executed twice, but given that it's still 1.36, i 
> didn't bother much.
> 
> so, is there some dst intelligence in latest versions of bacula ?
> if not, maybe a comment, warning about this should be added to default 
> configuration file schedules :)

No, they weren't, but depending on where you live, there was no problem
this weekend. :)

How do other packages handle this? I believe cron is one of the more
intelligent programs when dealing with this. Perhaps anacron?
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