Knowledgebase: Command line interface (CLI)
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Executing a Plan with a custom time schedule
Posted by Sven Koester, Last modified by Sven Koester on 25 November 2019 16:25
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It is sometimes required to perform the configured jobs, e.g. a backup, with a different schedule than offered by the P5 user interface. For instance, in case you want to perform a job twice a day, you cannot instruct P5 via web interface to do so. But there is another way to achieve that: Create an Archive- or SyncPlan according to your needs using the P5 web interface and execute that plan using a command via cron. The following commands make use of the command line interface of P5 and can be used to start a Synchronize- or ArchivePlan: To start a backup job, issue: /usr/local/aw/bin/nsdchat -s awsock:/:@: -c SyncPlan <name> submit now where <name> reflects the name of your Synchronize plan. If unsure, issue the command /usr/local/aw/bin/nsdchat -s awsock:/:@: -c SyncPlan names to get a list of names. The command to issue in order to start an archive plan is: /usr/local/aw/bin/nsdchat -s awsock:/:@: -c ArchivePlan <name> submit now where <name> reflects the name of you archive plan. If unsure, issue the command /usr/local/aw/bin/nsdchat -s awsock:/:@: -c ArchivePlan names to get a list of names. The Unix variants use different ways to schedule a job for execution, issue man 5 crontab in order to get information about how to instruct cron to start the job. In general, cron uses a table named crontab where each line holds a time schedule and a command to execute. The following example entry executes an ArchivePlan myname every sunday at 4:10 pm: 16 10 * * sun /usr/local/aw/bin/nsdchat -s awsock:/:@: -c ArchivePlan myname submit now | |
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