Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Improving job schedulingflexibility

2008-02-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 27.02.2008 09:29, Carsten Menke wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> >> >> Solution so that the 4th Friday job is not run if there is a 5th Friday: >> >> shell script which runs as RunBeforeJob. Verify that today + 7 days is >> still this month. >> If it is, error out and the job will not run. >>

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Improving job schedulingflexibility

2008-02-27 Thread Carsten Menke
Dan Langille wrote: > > > > Solution so that the 4th Friday job is not run if there is a 5th Friday: > > shell script which runs as RunBeforeJob. Verify that today + 7 days is > still this month. > If it is, error out and the job will not run. > Thanx for that :-) But what I meant is, should

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Improving job schedulingflexibility

2008-02-26 Thread Dan Langille
On Feb 26, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Carsten Menke wrote: > Hi, > > due to the recent discussion about improving scheduling, I think > what is > more important is, that you have the ability to run a job on the > last Friday of > the month, for example. To provide a real monthly cycle. Currently > y

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Improving job schedulingflexibility

2008-02-26 Thread Carsten Menke
Hi, due to the recent discussion about improving scheduling, I think what is more important is, that you have the ability to run a job on the last Friday of the month, for example. To provide a real monthly cycle. Currently you could specify this only as "4th-5th Fri" (to the best of my knowledg

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Improving job schedulingflexibility

2008-02-26 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 17.45:23 David Boyes wrote: > > > => Job Proximity = (0) > > > => Finally Job Proximity is to allow a bit of overlap. For example, > > if > > > a > > > > > job has => been running 20 minutes or ran 20 minutes ago, you might > > want > > > to > > > > > not apply => t

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Improving job schedulingflexibility

2008-02-26 Thread David Boyes
> > => Job Proximity = (0) > > => Finally Job Proximity is to allow a bit of overlap. For example, if > a > > job has => been running 20 minutes or ran 20 minutes ago, you might want > to > > not apply => the rules. > > > > Could you elaborate on what this means to you a bit more? > > I think