Re: [Networker] Scheduling with recurring overrides?
2007-08-21 04:54:54
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
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>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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