It's being promised in 4.1, not to be confused with 4.0v.  4.0v is going to 
add the Vertex stuff to 3.4.  4.1 is a major release, and is supposed to 
have calendar-based scheduling --- among a bunch of other cool stuff.

At 03:07 PM 12/6/00 -0500, Dennis Dwyer wrote:
>I will reaffirm what I've heard that the only way to do specific 
>scheduling (End of Month, 1st Monday etc;) is to write scripts, however, 
>when I was at the Veritas Conference in October I went to several sessions 
>on the Future of NetBackup. It is rumored, in song and verse, from the 
>Veritas developers that in Version 4 (not to be confused with 3.4) or some 
>release thereafter, there may be/could be/might be/possibly be calendar 
>based scheduling instead of the current frequency based scheduling. I was 
>excited ... I think. I would also like to execute certain types of backups 
>and assign different retention periods based on first Monday and last 
>Friday. I hear it's on the way.
>
>Regards,
>
>Dennis F. Dwyer
>Enterprise Storage Manager
>Tampa Electric Company
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