John Drescher wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu> 
> wrote:
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>> Jean Gobin wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering whether a "window" functionnality exists in the current 
>>> version of Bacula.
>>>
>>> I explain: we have several jobs executing. And for some reasons, one of 
>>> them was delayed until business hours. The only problem is that this job 
>>> starts by executing a script which shuts an application down before moving 
>>> files, then restarts it. That was not truly welcome during the day ...
>>>
>>> Do you think a "Window" statement, specifying start and end times for a job 
>>> to execute would come in a handy for this?
>>>
>>> Something like:
>>>
>>> window <start hour> <stop hour> <allowed days>
>>>
>>> Where <start hour> and <stop hour> would be formatted like hh:mm:ss, and 
>>> <allowed days> would be [Mon|Tue|Web|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun], to take into account 
>>> possible maintenance days.
>>>
>>> This new thread opened as per Bruno F. request.
>> It would make life a little easier, yes, but there are similar existing
>> options to do the same time. Max Run Time, Max Wait Time, and maybe one
>> other all come to mind. Check them out.
>>
> 
> Or check the time in the run before script that stops the services.
> Return an error and the job will not run.

Simple for the win....


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Dan Langille

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