How to schedule for every two fridays with cron and/or at?
Mike Fedyk
mfedyk at matchmail.com
Sun Jul 18 22:06:42 UTC 2004
M3 Freak wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 18:59, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have Amanda setup to run a daily backup Monday through Friday night.
>>That works fine.
>>
>>But now I want to add a full backup every two weeks on Friday night and
>>I'm having trouble creating cron entries that don't have the commands
>>running on the same day for full and daily backups.
>>
>>
>
>While I appreciate what you're trying to do, do you realize that
>AMANDA's entire reason for being is to make backups easier by not
>telling her what to do? You are supposed to specify your tape and dump
>cycles, and then let AMANDA figure out the rest. She'll schedule full
>dumps when she feels they're required, but the entire decision is based
>on how you set up the tape and dump cycles.
>
>
Yes, I understand that, but sometimes you need to say "yes, there was is
full backup on X tapes every other Friday" and not have to explain that
you'll have to check to see which tape contains a full backup of this
volume.
>AMANDA is a great backup program, but I see people trying to force
>backup schedules all the time. It's not needed.
>
>You should subscribe to the AMANDA mailing list. It has got to be one
>of the best, if not the best, mailing list out there. People are
>insanely helpful.
>
>
I just did that as a matter of fact.
Amanda looks pretty good now that I'm figuring out how it works, but the
documentation is horrendous (especially the faq-o-matic).
Mike
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