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PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:23 am    Post subject: I need to script the schedules... Reply with quote

Hi there,
We're in the process of changing a portion of our backups in possibly 30 locations right now and maybe more in future. We need to replicate a 28 day tape backup, so 28 full backups with no archiving. I've made a script that creates the fsf file but am a bit stuck with the schedule.

Creating the schedule is very time consuming and gives a large scope for error so finding a script that can do this is really important.

The schedules are stored in the usual place C:\windows\tasks but I haven't found a way to open the *.job easily. Certainly notepad just gives you mostly garbage. Do you know of a way that I can edit the .job so that I can script it's creation, or possibly you have some other idea on how I can create the schedules?

Thanks for your time.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi , the .job files are a Windows Task Scheduler format, probably a binary format non-editable... did you try VVengine? VVEngine schedules are set with a XML file. thanks
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for that. I didn't even know about that product - I'll give it a whirl. XML sounds perfect.

Cheers
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Let me know how it goes! Smile thanks
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That worked great thanks. The XML files don't even need any tweaking as they don't refer to a server or path.
Great stuff
Thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This has worked great at many sites until today.

Now when we add the XML file and then start the service it immediately gets overwritten by a blank XML file.

Any ideas?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is what we have found in the log file:
Quote:
"Failed loading C:\Documents and Settings\control\Application Data\VVEngine\VVEngine.xml. Unable to open XML file for parsing."
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, we have found the problem.

Our original XML file started off with:
Code:
<xml>
<SETTINGS>
<HTTP>
<CHECKNEW>25</CHECKNEW>
</HTTP>
<ITEM>
<PROFILE>C:\ViceVersa\profiles\01MonWeek1.fsf</PROFILE>


But when I now create a new schedule the file is different, so I altered our XML file to:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<SETTINGS>
<ITEM>
<PROFILE>C:\ViceVersa\profiles\01MonWeek1.fsf</PROFILE>

which now works.

That is very worrying for us of course. Does that mean that new versions of VV will break our XML files?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello, we do not plan the XML format for future VVEngine releases.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

But you DID change it recently as above, yes?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello

yes, I think it was changed between VVEngine version 1.0 and 1.1

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