That's doing exactly what Randy wanted not to do: specifying specific
days in a schedule. That means you will, eventually, have to go run that
script again for another year.

Randy: no, there's no better way to do this within NetBackup's
scheduling mechanism. Automating the schedule updates with something
along the lines of what Misha describes reduces the irritation, but you
just can't say things like "X day of a quarter" or "first Sunday after
the last Friday in a month" with what NBU gives you. 


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gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Unix/Linux/VMware Sysadmin / Backup & Recovery
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556 


-----Original Message-----
From: misha.pavlov AT sgcib DOT com [mailto:misha.pavlov AT sgcib DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 10:44 AM
To: Randy Samora
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu;
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Quarterly Backups and Calendar Schedule [NC]

Define the "easier way", please. Scripting ?

What's the stubmling block - figuring out last friday of the quarter ? -

wouldn't that be last Friday of the last month of the quarter, which is 
actually known in advance.
I.e. last last Fridays of Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec - correct ?
Jan, Feb, Mar
Apr, May, Jun
Jul, Aug, Sep
Oct, Nov, Dec

In this case:

for month in 3 6 9 12 ; do
        day=$(last_friday_of $month)
        /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpplschedrep POLICY 
QUARTER_END_SCHEDULE -incl $day
done

Where last_friday_of is your script/function you have mentioned saying
"I 
can do last Friday of the month"

Or I am missing smthng ?


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Misha Pavlov
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"Randy Samora" <Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com> 
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03/28/2008 10:00 AM


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Subject
[Veritas-bu] Quarterly Backups and Calendar Schedule






Does anyone know of an easier way to configure a Quarterly backup
schedule to run on the last Friday of the Quarter other than going in
and manually selecting those 4 dates in the year for each policy?  I can
do last Friday of the month but not last Friday of the Quarter.  Just
wondering if there was an easier way.

Thanks,
Randy

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