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Re: [Networker] Scheduling with recurring overrides?

2007-08-21 04:54:54
Subject: Re: [Networker] Scheduling with recurring overrides?
From: "Wood, R A (Bob)" <WoodR AT CHEVRON DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:50:23 +0100
A minor point but, did your override state every month?

You wrote    The problem I'm seeing is that the override I set for the
full
   on the 1st Friday is not showing up in the subsequent months.

Try - full first Friday of every month

Regards
Bob


 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
>[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Craven
>Sent: 20 August 2007 12:22
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: [Networker] Scheduling with recurring overrides?
>
>Hi All
>
>I'm trying to schedule a full backup to run once a month and 
>to skip all the other days.  This data is read-only and is 
>only being backed up for disaster recovery.
>
>I'd like to have a schedule that looks like this:
>
>   =======================
>     S  M  T  W  T  F  S
>   =======================
>     s  s  s  s  s  f  s
>     s  s  s  s  s  s  s
>     s  s  s  s  s  s  s
>     s  s  s  s  s  s  s
>   =======================
>
>I understand that using an incremental instead of skip will 
>give the same answer (the data's not changing) but this is an 
>NDMP backup and I believe that the filer will do some work 
>just to determine that there's nothing to backup, and I'd 
>rather that Networker did the work, rather than the NetApp.
>
>   The problem I'm seeing is that the override I set for the full
>   on the 1st Friday is not showing up in the subsequent months.
>
>I believe it's possible to do this, as a similar scheduling 
>arrangement was setup by my predecessor and is working fine 
>(in fact, his is more complicated, as it has fulls on 1st/3rd 
>weeks with different retention to 2nd/4th weeks and 
>incrementals). Like this
>
>======================================================================
>     "Incremental"          "10 Year Retention"    "6 Month Retention"
>======================= ======================= ======================
>   S  M  T  W  T  F  S     S  M  T  W  T  F  S     S  M  T  W  T  F  S
>======================= ======================= ======================
>   s  i  i  i  i  s  s     s  s  s  s  s  f  s     s  s  s  s  s  s  s
>   s  i  i  i  i  s  s     s  s  s  s  s  s  s     s  s  s  s  s  f  s
>   s  i  i  i  i  s  s     s  s  s  s  s  f  s     s  s  s  s  s  s  s
>   s  i  i  i  i  s  s     s  s  s  s  s  s  s     s  s  s  s  s  f  s
>======================= ======================= 
>====================== 
>======================================================================
>
>I'm using the Windows GUI [Version 7.2.2], but our server's a 
>Linux box so maybe I should be using the X GUI (couldn't make 
>it work there either)
>
>I'd appreciate any insights people have.  Perhaps I'm going 
>about this the wrong way altogether?
>
>Thanks & Regards
>Mark
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