Re: [Networker] one schedule per client entry

 
Thanks for all the responses.  Some good ideas.

My plan is as follows.

I have schedules like this "Full First Friday Only" and "Weekly Skip
First Friday Only".  So I'm going to create schedules for each day of
the week called "MAINT Full First Friday Only", etc... Then I'll use a
script to check daily for any clients with a "MAINT" schedule and alert
me if necessary.

Thanks again,

Joel





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On Behalf Of Rohrich, James
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Subject: Re: [Networker] one schedule per client entry

I try to avoid removing a client because of what might happen. You may
want to have a special schedule that you can assign to a client. This
special schedule would be pretty much the same as your other schedules,
but you would be able to modify it to skip one night and only affect
that client. If you forget to change it back, you would still get the
regular backups in the special schedule. Problem is if you forget to
change the schedule back and skip another day in the future for another,
you will skip that backup also.
When I make changes like this, I send myself a reminder in addition to
others.

James Rohrich
UOP LLC
25 E. Algonquin Rd.
Des Plaines, Illinois 60016
Tel: (847) 391-3958
james.rohrich AT uop DOT com


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On Behalf Of Davina Treiber
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 11:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [Networker] one schedule per client entry


Roberta Butcher wrote:
> For this purpose, I created a schedule called "Incr Daily". This 
> schedule does an incremental daily. When I want to force a skip on a 
> client, I do an override skip for that day in that schedule, then put 
> that schedule in the client definition. This way, if I forget to put 
> the client back in its regular schedule, at least it will be doing 
> incrementals ...

That looks like a good compromise. If need be you could have a couple of
these schedules for ad hoc requirements. You could also have a daily
script to check for any clients with this schedule and alert you by
email or similar. Probably easier to detect than a client that may not
be in the correct group.

I'd say the original suggestion is a bit unwieldy. Not exactly bad
practice, but not the best. ;-)

>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've run into a couple of instances where I need to keep a server 
>> from backing up just for one night, so I remove it from the group it 
>> runs in and then forget and never add it back.  So a couple of 
>> weeks/months later I discover that 'Oh Crap' I don't have that system

>> backed up.  So I've been considering creating a schedule for each 
>> client instead of standardized schedules like I have now, so that I 
>> can just do an override skip instead of remove them from the group.
>> My questions are ... is anyone with a large environment doing this?
>> ...is there a limit to the number of schedules you can create?  ...is

>> this considered best practice or a bad practice?

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