Scheduler

[adam.pandi]

Hello,

We would like to suggest an improvement related to the JOB scheduler. Independently of the schedule, there could be a rule where the job can additionally be disabled or enabled on specific calendar days. This would override the existing schedule, because in some cases it may be necessary to define exceptions.

For example:

Tape backup
Weekly schedule: every Sunday
Monthly schedule: the first Sunday of every month

Due to the amount of data, both the weekly and monthly schedules cannot run on the first Sunday of each month, because they do not fit within the backup window. Therefore, it would be useful to disable the weekly backups on the first Sunday.

[Mildur]

Hi Adam,

If weekly and monthly are scheduled on the same day, only the monthly media set will be written to tape.
We don’t write two different GFS media sets from the same tape job on the same day.

From the Help Center – Schedule Overlap:

If the schedule for backup periods overlap, only the backup for the eldest media set will be archived. The media sets have the following priority: Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly, Daily. For example, if "the first Sunday of January" is the date for the monthly, the quarterly and the yearly backup, the GFS job will create only the yearly backup; the monthly and the quarterly backups will be skipped.

Do you see issues with your current design, or was this more a question before deploying the tape jobs?

Best,
Fabian