I use this method every week. I have a cron job that kicks off on my master 
server to figure out if it's the first Friday of the month or not. If it is, I 
scheduled a backup with a 6 month retention period. Otherwise I schedule a 
backup with a 5 week retention. Started to look at the bpstart_notify method 
but figured by the time that's called the schedule would already be determined 
and I would be over riding stuff. Didn't want to deal with all that.

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Dennis

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>>> "dayal singh" <dayalsd AT lycos DOT com> 06/13/01 05:12PM >>>
NBU Guru's,
            I got a silly idea of using the bpstart_notify for checking the end 
of the month, if it succeeds then the backup will be scheduled else it won't. 
Anybody done like this ?

I can also use the other method of activating and deactivating the classes at 
the end of the month. But I have around thirty classes and I don't want to 
duplicate the classe for the monthly backups.

I can also  do a manual backup using cron. But if at the same time Incremental 
backups are fired, now monthly as well as Incremental backups will start at the 
same time or am I wrong ?

I can keep a frquency of 28 days for monthlies, but my business requirement 
doesn't permit me to do the same.

Any other solutions please ?

I appreciate y'r response

TIA

Dayal


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