Setting a different schedule for automatic backups

[crowley]

Hi, I have a ZCS Network Edition 5.0.6 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and works very fine, but the process of automatic backup is eating almost all the hard disk space.

By default, it's scheduled to delete backups older than 1 month, but I want to do it every 10 days or so. The help page for zmschedulebackup is not very clear to set it, the syntax is something like this:

zmschedulebackup -R d "n{d|m|y}"

Where the quoted string is the time specifier to delete bakups, but every combination I typed it's wrong, do somebody know how to do this?

Greetings.

[kirme3]

Try:

zmschedulebackup -R d 10d "0 0 * * *"

The stuff in quotes is crontab formatted, so if you want it to run at a different hour than midnight, change those values.

The problem with this format is that it will replace your complete backup schedule. So, what you are going to want to do is be sure you write down what your current schedule is then use the -A option, not the -R option to schedule your daily backups and also your 10d deletions.

Does that make sense?

[crowley]

Just like you said, I used the '-A' option and now my schedule is this.

f 0 1 * * 6 -a all
i 0 1 * * 0-5 -a all
d 1m 0 0 * * *
d 10d 0 0 * * *

Thank you.

[kirme3]

I'm glad you have what you want, but you may want to reconfigure to remove the monthly delete too.