Overall,  I’m fairly happy in with Bacula.  It has saved  me thousand of $$  migrating from Arkeia Network Backup software.  However,  there is one shortfall that is causing me some grief and I don’t see any easy solution to:  Bacula does  not provide a “last <day> of the month”  feature  in its scheduling option.   

I wish to run an offsite backup to tape on the last Friday of each month.    Bacula provides  1^st-5^th day of the week  option.   Although, most months contain only 4 Fridays, some contain 5 (last January for example).   If I set the schedule to  include the 4^th and 5^th  Friday,  I will get 2 offsite backups for the months  containing 5 Friday.  I don’t want this  because it wastes  limited disk space in my D2D2T configuration.  Manual intervention  seems to be  only  solution but this defeats the “set it and forget it” paradigm  that I’m seeking.

I am hoping  someone has  solution to this dilemma.

Thanks.

Conrad Lawes| Systems Administrator | visit us at www.navtech.aero