Feature Request Item: implement Vacation/Holiday scheduling *within* Bacula(director) Date: 10 May 2010 Origin: Olaf Zevenboom (o...@artefact.nl) Status:
What: A pre-job option to check to see if the current date (or the day before when jobs are run after 24.00) is a holiday/vacation. Currently this can be done by calling an external script, however this has some drawbacks as described below. Why: It's easy to use an external script to check for holidays/vacation however implementing it with a configurable config file directly into the director is probably not that hard either. For script implementation with configurable file see also: http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=hints_tips:scheduling_vacation_holidays Advantages of direct implementation within Bacula: - current implementation using an external script leads to Bacula messages reporting errors on holidays as the job is canceled while behavior is expected as it is. Implementation in Director will eliminate the need to falsely call these jobs erroneous. If errors are reported by email or even a pager/SMS this can be annoying. - this feature is a must for all of those with a single-slot tapedrive so having this feature eliminates the need for administrators with such an hardware environment to implement an external solution - external "solutions" are OS specific Notes: Maybe it is also an option to support ics files or even icalendar-servers. See: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/holidays.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
