George,

In NMC, go to your schedule.  Set it up as you want it to run regularly.  Then, 
close it, and
right click on the schedule name, uncheck the "Show Schedule as Calendar" 
option.  Now, open
it, and in the Overrides section, enter "full last saturday every month".  Now, 
click OK and
enjoy never having to update that schedule again!

Frank

On 10/22/10 12:06 PM, George Sinclair wrote:
> On a somewhat related note, I notice that the group backup schedules allow 
> only by week or
> month. Suppose I want to have a full run on the last Saturday of every month? 
> If I select week,
> it will be every Saturday. If I select month, it will be on that same date 
> (e.g. 30th) of every
> month which will not always be a Saturday. Sure, I can override the backup 
> schedule manually,
> but that requires having to go in every month and dork around with it or set 
> it all up months
> in advance - a pain when you're dealing with a lot of schedules and groups. 
> So I solve this by
> running the full backups from a script that determines when that day is and 
> then runs the full
> backups. The script runs from cron every day, so if it's not yet the date, it 
> does nothing.

-- 
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