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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Cron schedule for ever other week Post 302337157 by Paul.S on Thursday 23rd of July 2009 01:18:58 PM
Old 07-23-2009
Cron schedule for ever other week

I have cron scheduing that after hotbackup omniback kicks in and back up tape.

00 17 * * * /usr/local/bin/archbakPRD/mainPRDbackup.sh > /usr/local/bin/archbakPRD/dbfcopy.log 2 >&1

above cron can fired every night at 5PM but omnibackup need to have seperate name for each backup ( i.e: PRD_backup_Mon_A, PRD_backup_Tue_A, etc )

Above is not a problem since all I have to do is

00 17 * * 1, 00 17 * * 2, 00 17 * * 3, 00 17 * * 4, etc with different day hardcoded in backp script.

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Now My problem
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we have two set of tape drive and rotate tapes inside. For example

1st and 3rd Monday we use PRD_backup_Mon_A

2nd and 4th Monday we use PRD_backup_Mon_B


I know I can create 8 set of cron schedule but how do I go about setting up the cron so that it will run every other Monday for "PRD_backup_Mon_A" and every other Monday for "PRD_backup_Mon_B"?

any help will be appreciated

Pau
 

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yum-cron(8)															       yum-cron(8)

NAME
yum-cron - an interface to convieniently call yum from cron SYNOPSIS
yum-cron [config-file] DESCRIPTION
yum-cron is an alternate interface to yum that is optimised to be convenient to call from cron. It provides methods to keep repository metadata up to date, and to check for, download, and apply updates. Rather than accepting many different command line arguments, the dif- ferent functions of yum-cron can be accessed through config files. config-file is used to optionally specify the path to the configuration file to use. If it is not given, the default configuration file will be used. It is useful to be able to specify different configuration files for different use cases. For example, one configuration file might be set to update the repository metadata, and a line could be added to the crontab to run yum-cron frequently using this file. Then, another configuration file might be set to install updates, and yum-cron could be run from cron using this file just once each day. FILES
/etc/yum/yum-cron.conf /etc/yum/yum-cron-hourly.conf SEE ALSO
yum (8) AUTHORS
See the Authors file included with this program. BUGS
There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, you should email the mailing list, yum@lists.baseurl.org, or consult bugzilla. Nick Jacek yum-cron(8)
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