You can also set the frequency to one day less than the shortest month,
which would be 27, then put a backup window for every day of the week.
Its less predictable _when_ the backup occurs, but its using the NBU
scheduler.

RCA

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>>> "Lowell Fafard" <lfafard AT saskpower DOT com> 05/07/02 05:31PM >>>
What we do is setup monthly and yearly schedules, with the same time as

the regular full but longer retention periods, as user backups(not 
recognized by the scheduler).  At the first of the month have a script
run 
via crontab change these schedules to full backups and then back to
user 
backups on the 8th of the month.  The scheduler will take the backup
with 
the longer retention period.

Hope this helps.

Lowell






"Geoffrey Hazel" <geoffh AT us.ibm DOT com>
Sent by: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
2002-05-07 04:04 PM

 
        To:     <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
        cc: 
        Subject:        [Veritas-bu] What is the BEST WAY to schedule a
monthly backup (without 
4.5)


I have a requirement to run a month end backup in the first week of
the
month.  The data isn't there prior to that week, and after that week
it
disappears.  If I wanted to schedule the job with NetBackup and not
simply
run a manual job from "cron", what would be the best way to do that?

I'm toying with the idea of scheduling it every 730 hours (that's 365
days
x 24 hrs/day / 12 months) and just opening up the schedule 24/7 so when
it
gets to the 730'th hour, off it goes.

Anyone else come up with a better way? A more clever plan?


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