In regard to: Re: [Networker] problem creating a monthly sechule, Jim Lane...:

>Tim: thanks for this. it works like a charm exactly as you describe.
>at the risk of quibbling with good news, however, I have a couple of
>problems with this. firstly why doesn't it work the way the paragraph
>in the manual says it should?

Unknown, I haven't looked at the manual in a while, and the last time I
looked at it for how to create schedules was a long, long time ago.

> and secondly, isn't this a sysadmin
>disaster
>waiting to happen?

You bet.  That's why Legato finally got off their butts and came up with
better "repeat" ability in their scheduling facility.  Itzik Meirson
demonstrates the "new and improved" way to do repeating schedules with
recent versions of NetWorker.

If you're using 5.x, or possibly even early 6.x, you're stuck with the
older method, which I documented.

> what if I forget about this 3 years from now and
>don't extend the schedule? surely there should be some way of
>defining a schedule like this definitively once and for all.

Yup, but it's a recent addition to Networker.

Tim
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