On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Eric Bollengier wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I'm working on writing a perl script that will backup volumes in my
>> AFS cell by dumping them to a NFS share. I'm running this as a
>> RunBeforeJob script using some of the variable expansion features of
>> bacula to fill in the arguments to the script. I have a question
>> regarding the behavior of the %s (since time) expansion:
>> I'm doing full backups the 1st sunday of the month, differentials on
>> sunday and incrementals every other day. If on the 2nd sunday of the
>> month (1st differential of the month) will %s be expanded to the date
>> of the full backup on the first sunday or will it be expanded to the
>> date of the last job that ran (the incremental that ran saturday)?
>
> I have made this small test
>
> Job {
> Name = "Client1"
> JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
> RunBeforeJob = "/bin/echo %s"
> }
>
> and i have run this
> run level=Full Client1
> Start time: 20-fév-2007 09:35:32
> => BeforeJob: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
>
> run level=Incremental Client1
> Start time: 20-fév-2007 09:36:51
> => BeforeJob: 2007-02-20 09:35:32
>
> run level=Differential Client1
> Start time: 20-fév-2007 09:37:24
> => BeforeJob: 2007-02-20 09:35:32
>
> run level=Incremental Client1
> Start time: 20-fév-2007 09:37:42
> => BeforeJob: 2007-02-20 09:37:24
>
> Everything works as expected i think.
Good, this is what I hoped for (too bad I didn't think of that test...)
>
>> I could not find any definitive answer in the manual and couldn't
>> find it right away when looking at the source.
>>
>> Also is there any timeframe of when (or even if) the format of the
>> timestamp will be user configurable? I saw some comments in lib/
>> btime.c about it and I for one would find this very handy.
>
> This is an ISO output, so, if you are using perl, you can convert
> this very
> easily (you can try Date::ParseDate)
The issue I was having was with perl's Getopt::Long. The current
format has a space in it and getopt was only seeing the date portion
of the timestamp (and leaving the time in ARGV. I have worked around
it but it lead to quite a bit of head scratching. (my workaround was
to manually pop the time out of ARGV and append it to the value given
by getopt. I tried putting quotes around the %s in the command but
that didn't work.
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