On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu> 
wrote:
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> Jean Gobin wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm wondering whether a "window" functionnality exists in the current 
>> version of Bacula.
>>
>> I explain: we have several jobs executing. And for some reasons, one of them 
>> was delayed until business hours. The only problem is that this job starts 
>> by executing a script which shuts an application down before moving files, 
>> then restarts it. That was not truly welcome during the day ...
>>
>> Do you think a "Window" statement, specifying start and end times for a job 
>> to execute would come in a handy for this?
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> window <start hour> <stop hour> <allowed days>
>>
>> Where <start hour> and <stop hour> would be formatted like hh:mm:ss, and 
>> <allowed days> would be [Mon|Tue|Web|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun], to take into account 
>> possible maintenance days.
>>
>> This new thread opened as per Bruno F. request.
>
> It would make life a little easier, yes, but there are similar existing
> options to do the same time. Max Run Time, Max Wait Time, and maybe one
> other all come to mind. Check them out.
>

Or check the time in the run before script that stops the services.
Return an error and the job will not run.

John

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