Hello,

Although it would be useful to have vacation schedules directly in Bacula, 
your Feature Request doesn't explain in a way that can be implemented what 
you really want as there is no common definition of what a holiday/vacation 
and you do not specify how this should be handled.

In addition, we already have a Feature Request #2 in the projects file that 
would add significant additional functionality to schedules.  

For the moment, I am not accepting your Feature Request for inclusion in the 
project files for the above two reasons.  What I suggest is that you take a 
look at the current project item #2 and see if you can make some specific 
changes (possibly with examples) that would permit doing what you want in a 
simple and easy way, then submit a "modification" or "enhancement" to item 
#2.

Best regards,

Kern

On Monday 10 May 2010 17:23:25 Olaf Zevenboom wrote:
> Feature Request
>
> Item: implement Vacation/Holiday scheduling *within* Bacula(director)
> Date: 10 May 2010
> Origin: Olaf Zevenboom (olaf AT artefact DOT nl)
> Status:
>
> What:
> A pre-job option to check to see if the current date (or the day before
> when jobs are run after 24.00) is a holiday/vacation. Currently this can
> be done by calling an external script, however this has some drawbacks
> as described below.
>
> Why:
> It's easy to use an external script to check for holidays/vacation
> however implementing it with a configurable config file directly into
> the director is probably not that hard either. For script implementation
> with configurable file see also:
> http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=hints_tips:scheduling_vacation_holidays
>
> Advantages of direct implementation within Bacula:
> - current implementation using an external script leads to Bacula
> messages reporting errors on holidays as the job is canceled while
> behavior is expected as it is. Implementation in Director will eliminate
> the need to falsely call these jobs erroneous. If errors are reported by
> email or even a pager/SMS this can be annoying.
> - this feature is a must for all of those with a single-slot tapedrive
> so having this feature eliminates the need for administrators with such
> an hardware environment to implement an external solution
> - external "solutions" are OS specific
>
> Notes:
> Maybe it is also an option to support ics files or even icalendar-servers.
> See: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/holidays.html
>
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