On 2013-02-05 10:44, Conrad Lawes wrote:
> 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 1st-5th 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 4th and 5th 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.

Script it.  Run the job on both the 4th and the 5th Fridays.

Add a run before script.  In the script, check to see if there is a 5th 
Friday.
If so, and we're on the 4th Friday, cancel the job.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

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