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Aug 29, 2017

Configuring quiet periods

Configuring quiet periods for a job is done by manually adding period definition to the job's configuration file.

        See this topic for how to apply a configuration override -
        https://bvckup2.com/support/forum/topic/1140

Each quiet period is described by its own "conf.quiet_time" line, e.g.

        conf.quiet_time    2017-08-29 12:34, 3 hours

This defines a 3 hour quiet period starting at specified date and time.

        conf.quiet_time    2017-08-29 12:34,  3 hours, 12 hours

Same, but the period is then repeated every 12 hours.

Note #1 - the "start" point can be set into the future. This can be useful for scheduling one-off quiet periods around one-off external events.

Note #2 - the "repeat" interval must not be shorter than the QT "duration," e.g. something like this is a configuration error and it will cause the job to be disabled on load:

        conf.quiet_time    2017-08-29 12:34, 10 hours, 2 hours

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Aug 29, 2017

Weekly scheduling

Simplified notation can be used to schedule weekly quiet periods:

        conf.quiet_time    Monday 12:34, 10 hours

A day of the week followed by HH:MM, comma, followed by duration.

It's also possible to specify the repeat interval, but it must be a multiple of one week. E.g.

        conf.quiet_time    Monday 12:34, 10 hours, 3 weeks
        conf.quiet_time    Monday 12:34, 10 hours, 14 days

are both acceptable, but

        conf.quiet_time    Monday 12:34, 10 hours, 3 days

is not and it will yield a configuration error on job's load.

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Dialp :

Sep 15, 2017

Thanks, Alex! I was really looking forward for this feature.

I've just configured my backups to skip the weekends, let's see how it works out!

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kostas.michas :

Sep 29, 2017

Hi guys,

When will that be ready on the user interface please?

Cheers!

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Alex Pankratov :

Sep 29, 2017

Most likely in a couple of major releases - in R80 or thereabouts.

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kostas.michas :

Oct 30, 2017

Ok thank you Alex

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roadrunnerm :

Feb 01, 2019

This is not working very well

I use https://bvckup2.com/support/forum/topic/971 and https://bvckup2.com/support/forum/topic/1140

I have make a override.ini file
conf.src_eject_device   1 (after this i goto next line) this was working whitout a error but it hold not any conf.quiet_time configuration

First i put this line in it override.ini file
conf.quiet_time    2019-02-02 9:00,  16 hours, 11 hours (after this i goto next line) and save the file
Reload the backup job whit the crtl key holding
I get a error Configuration file is invalide

Second I Edit the override.ini file and put the following 2 lines in it.
conf.src_eject_device   1 (after this i goto next line)
conf.quiet_time    2019-02-02 9:00,  16 hours, 11 hours  (after this i goto next line) and save the file
Reload the backup job whit the crtl key holding
I get a error Configuration file is invalide

best regards,
Martin