you can do it with bpsched -IB on the first of the month or 
something. just put it in cron and have the schedule defined
on the server. You don't even need to define the backup windows
as -IB tells it to ignore backup windows and do an immediate 
backup.

of course there are probably better ways to handle it, but 
this works for me.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Hazel [mailto:geoffh AT us.ibm DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 5:04 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] What is the BEST WAY to schedule a 
> monthly backup
> (without 4.5)
> 
> 
> I have a requirement to run a month end backup in the first 
> week of the
> month.  The data isn't there prior to that week, and after 
> that week it
> disappears.  If I wanted to schedule the job with NetBackup 
> and not simply
> run a manual job from "cron", what would be the best way to do that?
> 
> I'm toying with the idea of scheduling it every 730 hours 
> (that's 365 days
> x 24 hrs/day / 12 months) and just opening up the schedule 
> 24/7 so when it
> gets to the 730'th hour, off it goes.
> 
> Anyone else come up with a better way? A more clever plan?
> 
> 
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