Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula skipped 02:00 AM schedule on start of daylight saving

2012-03-26 11:20:14
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula skipped 02:00 AM schedule on start of daylight saving
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:18:15 +0100
>>>>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:13:29 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:
> 
> On 03/26/2012 09:53 AM, Josh Fisher wrote:
> > 
> > On 3/26/2012 4:57 AM, Alan Brown wrote:
> >> On 26/03/12 08:59, Frank Seidinger wrote:
> >>
> >>> I run a daily schedule on 02:00 AM which was skipped last night, when
> >>> the clocks advanced one hour forward from 02:00 AM to 03:00 AM when the
> >>> daylight saving hast started in central Europe.
> >> The standard workaround is to not schedule anything between 2am and 3am
> > 
> > Yes. There simple fix is to not schedule anything between 2-3:00 AM. 
> > However, it would be nice if Bacula's date-time-specification allowed 
> > specifying time zone information. That would be a proper fix, allowing 
> > one to schedule by UTC time and avoid these issues altogether.
> 
> One could, of course, just run UTC on the server...

Setting TZ=UTC in the environment when running bacula-dir might be sufficient.

__Martin

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