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CLEAR_RTC
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17 years ago

Grandfather Father Son Policy problem.

Hello All,
 
I implemented a new policy tuesday of last week to sort out or Daily, Weekly, and Monthly backups.
 
I tested the policy on Dec 3rd.  I selected all weekdays to run daily jobs but on friday to run weekly and the last day of the month to run the monthly.  I test it that night by also scheduling a monthly backup (becuase we had missed it on the 30th)  It did not run the daily and picked the monthly job. However on friday it ran the daily backup job not the weekly.  I was wondering where I could find where and or how it decided what job to run , there is no mentiuon in the logs I can find.
 
Here is how the policy is layed out.
 
If start times conflict, 2 - Weekly supersedes 1 - Daily.
If start times conflict, 3 - Monthly supersedes 1 - Daily.
If start times conflict, 3 - Monthly supersedes 1 - Weekly.
 
Thanks in advance
 
Carl

2 Replies

  • For your daily jobs you can clear the Fridays - it's never going to run on a friday as that's when you run weeklies.
    If you then set your monthlies to run on the last friday of the month, then you only need one rule: Monthly supercedes weekly