#ok thanks for suggestions.

I've also since thought of a way by changing frequency to calendar based and
clicked every Saturday.

Cheers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com>
To: "'Darren Dunham'" <ddunham AT taos DOT com>; <dave.markham AT icl DOT net>
Cc: <Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:25 PM
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding 2 full backups in one week.


> This is the best option, IMO.  Set your frequency to be just greater than
> your backup window.
>
> If you want to one-shot it, though.  Use the "at" utility to schedule a
job
> for Saturday that would trigger the backup using the bpsched command.
>
> -M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren Dunham [mailto:ddunham AT taos DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:02 AM
> To: dave.markham AT icl DOT net
> Cc: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding 2 full backups in one week.
>
>
> > I have been having trouble latly with write errors and so have not had =
> > full backups on a new system. I have finally had the drive replaced and
=
> > all works ok.=20
> > I have schedules set to run full backups on a Saturday night, but when =
> > the drive was replaced yesterday ( Tuesday ) I ran a manual full backup
=
> > so we have a full backup of the systems.
> > My concern is as the frequency for the full backup is set to 1 week and
=
> > the window is on the Saturday night between 10 - 10 on Sunday, as I have
=
> > ran a full backup already this scheduled full will not run.
> >
> > I cant see any settings to allow 2 jobs per week anywhere. Has any one =
> > got any ideas how I can assure the full backup will happen on sat night
=
> > as this needs to be epoch time for the project.
>
> Generally the suggestion would be to shrink the frequency, but keep it
> larger than the backup window.  In your case, reducing the frequency to
> 1 day should be fine.
>
> Then your backups will only happen once a week due to the window, but if
> you do a full backup midweek, it won't prevent the Saturday one from
> running.
>
>
> -- 
> Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT 
> com
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