XO Backup Advanced Backup Schedules
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@julien-f said in XO Backup Advanced Backup Schedules:
- yes, that should be possible
- No, this is unfortunately not possible with a CRON pattern
Cool, it's one of those things that would be great for use on a health check, right? Like once a month (or week) perform a health check to ensure that the system posts.
Datto does something similar to this, where they'll confirm if the system makes it past post.
The challenge I'm dealing with at the moment appear to be with IOPS or network performance and long delays, so I'm trying to find a creative way to still have this functionality, while occurring less frequently.
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@DustinB Can we have something like this, for instance:
Run monthly backup on 1st Sunday of each month at 5:00AM0 5 * * 7 [ $(date +\%d) -le 07 ] -
@aqua-calc No, XO currently only supports basic CRON patterns.
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@julien-f Any plan to introduce an ability to schedule monthly backups on a specific day of the week?
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@aqua-calc Not right now, this would not be a trivial change and we have other priorities at the moment
@olivierlambert Any opinions on this?
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I don't really know how difficult it would be to have an "advanced mode" with specific cron requests, is it a limitation in our lib?
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@olivierlambert It's a limitation of CRON patterns, to support this we need to implement it separately and design a dedicated UI.
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Eg like an "advanced" dedicated field to replace the UI and put directly the cron pattern we want, that would work?
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@julien-f said in XO Backup Advanced Backup Schedules:
@olivierlambert It's a limitation of CRON patterns, to support this we need to implement it separately and design a dedicated UI.
@olivierlambert said in XO Backup Advanced Backup Schedules:
Eg like an "advanced" dedicated field to replace the UI and put directly the cron pattern we want, that would work?
Sounds like it, but you would also need to ensure that if the "Advanced Schedule" is configured that the default option cannot be enabled and used.
Which in my case would be fine.
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@olivierlambert No, CRON patterns does not support this kind of scheduling.
