Additional info...
I just looked, and there were many backups that were overdue from the previous
schedule of
1 attempt a week
this is mainly because previously we scheduled monthlies and weeklies on
wednesday, and
the weeklies didn't happen every 4th week or so.
eg:
(from tuesday morning)
Class: general_NT, Schedule: weekly_full, Host: snake, 12 days instead of 7
Class: general_NT, Schedule: weekly_full, Host: frog, 12 days instead of 7
Class: general_bastion, Schedule: weekly_full, Host: giraffe, 19 days instead
of 7
Class: general_bastion, Schedule: weekly_full, Host: swan, 12 days instead of 7
Class: general_bastion, Schedule: weekly_full, Host: duck, 12 days instead of 7
Class: general_bastion, Schedule: weekly_full, Host: bee, 12 days instead of 7
Class: general_bastion, Schedule: weekly_full, Host: canary, 19 days instead of
7
Class: general_bastion, Schedule: weekly_full, Host: rhino, 12 days instead of 7
At 01:18PM, Oct 04 2002, Suzi Archer wrote :
> Hi all,
>
> I am seeing strange behaviour with calendar scheduling.
> (Note: NB master was upgraded from 3.4.1 -> 4.5 this time last week)
>
> I have modified the existing schedules we had, so that weekly's and monthly's
> run on a calendar schedule
> weeklies -> Every Wednesday of the month (Thursday where window starts after
> midnight)
> monthlies -> the 15th of each month
>
> I changed these schedules on Monday, and expected all the weekly backups to
> run on
> wed/thurs night. Instead *nothing* backed up at all over that night.
>
> Reading thru the archives, I noted many references to the "overnight quirks"
> of schedules
> slipping due to the " backup completed" time being used to determine when the
> next schedule is
> permitted to run, and can see that perhaps the weekies from last week took
> overly long
> to complete and thus none of them scheduled.
>
> There were two flaw's to the theory.
> 1) one client had been trying valiently to do a weekly backup since monday. I
> killed it
> each day before completion, to force it to get "in sync" with everything else
> on Wednesday.
> It did not try on Wednesday.
> 2) if the weekly backup schedule wasn't being triggered, why did the daily
> schedule not kick in
>
> One thing I have noted with the calendar scheduler, is that when scheduling
> by "days of week"
> the calendar display did not update with little green ticks on every
> wednesday. (trivial I know
> but it seemed odd - Administration console on Solaris)
>
> Does this sound like something any of you have seen before, or know a reason
> for?
>
> I'm a bit stumped, and I don't know what could be causing this.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> -suz
>
> Example of backup schedule:
>
> Policy Name: fred
>
> Policy Type: Standard
> Active: yes
> Effective date: 01/01/1970 10:00:00
> Client Compress: no
> Follow NFS Mounts: no
> Cross Mount Points: no
> Collect TIR info: no
> Block Incremental: no
> Mult. Data Streams: no
> Frozen Image: 0
> Backup Copy: 0
> Client Encrypt: no
> Policy Priority: 0
> Max Jobs/Policy: Unlimited
> Disaster Recovery: 0
> Residence: (specific storage unit not required)
> Volume Pool: Bastion
> Keyword: (none specified)
>
> HW/OS/Client: Solaris Solaris8 fred
>
> Include: /
> /var
> /opt
> /home
> /var/log
>
> Schedule: monthly_archive
> Type: Full Backup
> Maximum MPX: 1
> Retention Level: 9 (infinity)
> Number Copies: 1
> Fail on Error: 0
> Residence: (specific storage unit not required)
> Volume Pool: (same as policy volume pool)
> Calendar sched: Enabled
> Allowed to retry after run day
> Day 15 of month
> Daily Windows:
> Sunday 20:00:00 --> Monday 01:30:00
> Monday 20:00:00 --> Tuesday 01:30:00
> Tuesday 20:00:00 --> Wednesday 01:30:00
> Wednesday 20:00:00 --> Thursday 01:30:00
> Thursday 20:00:00 --> Friday 01:30:00
> Friday 20:00:00 --> Saturday 01:30:00
> Saturday 20:00:00 --> Sunday 01:30:00
>
> Schedule: weekly_full
> Type: Full Backup
> Maximum MPX: 2
> Retention Level: 5 (3 months)
> Number Copies: 1
> Fail on Error: 0
> Residence: (specific storage unit not required)
> Volume Pool: (same as policy volume pool)
> Calendar sched: Enabled
> Wednesday, Week 1
> Wednesday, Week 2
> Wednesday, Week 3
> Wednesday, Week 4
> Wednesday, Week 5
> Daily Windows:
> Sunday 20:00:00 --> Monday 01:30:00
> Monday 20:00:00 --> Tuesday 01:30:00
> Tuesday 20:00:00 --> Wednesday 01:30:00
> Wednesday 20:00:00 --> Thursday 01:30:00
> Thursday 20:00:00 --> Friday 01:30:00
> Friday 20:00:00 --> Saturday 01:30:00
> Saturday 20:00:00 --> Sunday 01:30:00
>
>
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