[Veritas-bu] Backup schedules of the type monthly

I know it's a little late, but there is a script in my NetBackup tool kit 
that handles this very nicely.

http://www.backupcentral.com/mytools.html

Here's the summary from the README:

autosched.pl*
       This script will create a full backup schedule for each NetBackup 
class.  To use it,
       create a file /usr/openv/local/etc/autosched.conf, with one line for 
each class.
       It should be 'classname:dayofmonth,' the 'dayofmonth' being the day 
you want its full
       backup to run.  Then you put autosched.pl in cron and run it once a 
day.  For each
       class, you must create a daily incremental schedule, because 
autosched uses that to
       create the 'days' file for the Full schedule.  Every day it runs, it 
checks to see
       if any classes are supposed to receive a full backup that day.  If 
so, it creates
       a full backup schedule with an interval of 10 days, and uses the 
days file from
       the incremental backup for windows.  It also uses retention number 8 
(You must
       edit autosched.pl to change that.). It then records that it did this in
       /usr/openv/local/data/autosched.dat.  Nine days later, it deletes 
the schedule.
       This gives the class nine days to do a full backup, but ensures that 
the full
       backup always occurs on the same day of the month.  (You can also 
specify a day
       of the week in autosched.conf.  If so, it will create the full on 
that day of the
       week, with an interval of 4 days, removing it 3 days later.)

At 11:32 AM 5/30/2001 -0400, Dennis Dwyer wrote:
>I've been successful at setting up a job to run on the first Friday of the 
>month using Option #1 listed below. If you wrap your cron job around a 
>script that does the math to compute the date and then submit (or not 
>submit) the bpbackup command based on the outcome. Doesn't have to be real 
>complicated.
>
>Quote: "Time is not a test of the truth"
>Translation: Just because you've always done it that way, doesn't make it 
>right
>
>Dennis F. Dwyer
>Enterprise Storage Manager
>Tampa Electric Company
>
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> >>> Rob Worman <rob AT colltech DOT com> 05/30/01 10:26AM >>>
>"Kelkar, Bhalchandra" wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > A derivative from the previous issue. How does one configure a schedule to
> > run on end of month / Year ( May fall on 28,29,30,31 or Mon - Sunday ). I
> > mean how can a Calendar be built.
>
>you have a few options, none of which are that practical:
>
>1. Use an OS-scheduler (cron on UNIX, at on NT) to schedule the backup
>(using bpbackup or bpclsched/bpclinfo if you want to get fancier)
>
>2. Wait for NetBackup 4.1, when this feature has been promised
>
>3. Set up a full schedule with a 30-day frequency, and live with the
>fact that you'll get an "approximate" end of month backup. :-(
>
>others?
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