What you say is definitely true.

If you want a better predictor, I suppose you could script a sliding window
for your upcoming Saturday using "bpsched -predict".  Because of the issue
you describe (which is exactly what I do for my standard filesystem sets) it
would let you look ahead a bit...

What I supplied is a way to look at full backups that *might* run on a
Saturday.

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:04 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO
Cc: List Veritas List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] schedule list?


On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:48:33PM -0700, Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com wrote:
> No, bppllist can be used for freq-based, either:
> 
> bppllist -allpolicies -U
> 
> ...and visually sort for "Saturday" being listed, or:
> 
> bppllist -allpolicies & look for an open window on a Saturday.

But if you have your Full and Incremental windows 7 days per week (which
many of us have), then you can't predict what will run this Saturday.
It depends on when the last Full ran and what runs between now and
Saturday.

Just because you have a Full window open on Saturday doesn't mean that a
Full will actually run.

        .../Ed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:08 PM
> To: Barber, Layne (Contractor)
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] schedule list?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:54:06PM -0600, Barber, Layne (Contractor)
wrote:
> > Is there any command line prog I can use to list the schedules of ALL
> > policies at once? I'm trying to find what policies are set to run fulls
> > on Saturday.
> 
> bppllist only helps if you only use calendar-based scheduling.  If you're
> using frequency-based scheduling, which most of us do, then it's next to
> impossible to figure out.
> 
> So yes, you answer your first question, but it likely won't help you
> determine what you're looking for.
> 
>         .../Ed
> 
> -- 
> Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org

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