Hi,

Charles R Somogyi wrote:
> 
> All:
> 
> We have an NT administrator that is asking to make the first Saturday's FULL 
> the monthly backup (with a 13 month
> retention as opposed to the weekly retention of 1 month). The admin does not 
> want to run user directed backups (does
> not want to administer the AT Scheduler or install 3rd party product). Does 
> anybody have any idea how to automate the
> process of making the first Saturday's backup the monthly (or the one with 
> the monthly retention)? There will be 300
> NT machines that need this process in place so it cannot be a manual process 
> to change the retention on the tapes used
> on the first Saturday. This would be so much easier if the scheduler in 
> NetBackup could be used as a scheduler (some
> type of calendar).
> 
> Thanks all.

one solution could be to create for each class a new schedule with:

- overriding the class volume pool with a new pool with a different retention 
level
- a backup window only on saturday
- a frequency of 4 weeks

If you really wants to perform full backups only on the first saturday of the 
month (is it mandatory, or is what you
need
only a full backup with a longer retention level ?) you will have to set the 
backup window of the new schedule through a
script: the backup window is normally cleared (i.e no backups are running); on 
the corresponding day, the 'days' file is
modified to enable backups. After backups are done, the days file is reset to 
the 'no backup' value.

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Regards,


        Guillaume Angleys


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