Re: How to schedule for every two fridays with cron and/or at?
From: Gene Heskett (gene.heskett_at_verizon.net)
Date: 07/19/04
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To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:32:28 -0400
On Sunday 18 July 2004 18:06, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>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
The faq-o-matic is I believe, editable. If you can improve it, and
have the time, please do so. Be aware that the editor sucks dead
toads thru a soda straw, to plagurize a Joanne Dow phrase. I'm a vi
man, so I quickly got lost in that thing, whatever it is.
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