Yes that makes sense, thank you very much.

Makes me think managing backups via xo-cli like you proposed would work a lot smoother for multiple XOA instances versus doing it in the gui.

Is it even mandatory for a Job to also have a schedule attached, if i run it using /etc/crontab?
i guess i'll figure this one out for myself.

Hello and thanks for replying @badrAZ

Ye i was curious how you implemented the cron schedules in XOA.

Of course, cron doesn't allow for an and-logic in itself so i wondered if i could prepend some condition to the backup job.

On systems which allow creating manual entries in cron-files i usually do as i showed the first posting, if i wish for more specificity. (and i suspect you don't edit crontabs in XOA by yourself)

Again, like this (or whatever your condition might be)

0 0 1-7 * *  [ $(date +\%u) -eq 7 ] && backup

It would mean, the schedule runs every day of month from 1 to 7, but the backup would only run if the previous statement exits with zero which is when day of week equals to 7.

is there a way in XOA to configure a job or so to mimic this behaviour?

i worked around my problem by creating a delta backup job with a full backup interval, such that the full backup would only run on a sunday every four weeks.

Still, for backup plans which do not contain incremental backups, this obviously wouldn't work.

Works in the GUI the same on each of my 5 XOA servers.

so i edited the schedule via xo-cli

[15:10:04][root@mgmt:~]$ xo-cli schedule.set cron="0 18 1-7 * 0" id=4d011d64-cd11-45cd-adf1-995ac44d1411

as i expected the pattern becomes like this

Sunday, September 13, 2020, 6:00 PM
Sunday, September 20, 2020, 6:00 PM
Sunday, September 27, 2020, 6:00 PM
Thursday, October 1, 2020, 6:00 PM
Friday, October 2, 2020, 6:00 PM
Saturday, October 3, 2020, 6:00 PM
Sunday, October 4, 2020, 6:00 PM

Thank you.

I will try the same procedure on another XOA;

perhaps this behaviour is due to some fault with the one i'm trying to create the schedule on.

Thanks for your reply.

I tried to play around with it, but each time i switch to week days, the schedule loses its patterns for the month days.

My method was:
In month day view select day 1 to 7, switch to week day selection and select only sunday.

But if i switch to week days like described, the pattern becomes like this:

Sunday, September 13, 2020, 6:00 PM
Sunday, September 20, 2020, 6:00 PM
Sunday, September 27, 2020, 6:00 PM

and so on...

Hello,

i'd like to know if it is possible to configure a schedule to run on, say some specific day of month; for example first sunday of every month.

i first tried to click something together in the xoa-web gui, but i hadn't any success with this method so i tried editing/creating said schedule via xo-cli - but as far as im concerned you are only allowed to use the cron notation for the schedule rules.

[14:00:53][root@mgmt:~]$ xo-cli schedule.getAll
[
  {
    "jobId": "40c62026-9219-4a37-91d3-e41b359d6338",
    "name": "foo",
    "enabled": true,
    "cron": "0 18 1 * *",
    "timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
    "id": "4d011d64-cd11-45cd-adf1-995ac44d1411"
  },

tl;dr: i'd like to create a schedule with this property:

0 0 1-7 * *  [ $(date +\%u) -eq 7 ] && backup

i there a way to do that?