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Re: Scheduling Question

2001-10-03 15:04:15
Subject: Re: Scheduling Question
From: Doug Thorneycroft <dthorneycroft AT LACSD DOT ORG>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 12:01:16 -0700
I have several schedules that I want to run Tuesday through Saturday early AM.
I run a batch file from the windows scheduler each Monday, that runs a macro
that updates each of these schedules to run on weekdays, then on Friday,
a second schedule runs a macro to update them to run on Saturday.

On Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:48 AM, Gerald Wichmann
[SMTP:gwichmann AT SANSIA DOT COM] wrote:
> When creating schedules, is it just me or is it annoying that you can't
> specify more then one parameter in the "day=" parameter? E.G., If I
> wanted to have a system to a full backup once a week, and differential
> daily (MSSQL TDP), I can specify the once a week Full easily enough by
> picking a day and setting day=F or whatever - But for my daily
> differential ideally I want it to do that on M,T,W,Th,Sa,Su..  But no
> such level of granularity is available. The best I can come up with is
> to do my Full SA morning at 02:00 and then set the daily differential
> WEEKDAY's at 02:00.. this covers everything but Sunday morning at 02:00
> backup.. Which means I need to create a 3rd schedule just to handle
> that.
>
> OR make the daily differential also run on the day of a full. Kind of
> pointless but wouldn't it be nice if I could set day=M,W,F or something
> similar?
>
> What do some of you do with this kind of problem?
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