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Schedules

Salvo has no permanent service: scheduled backups run when cron calls schedule-run every minute (one runner at a time; a missed time is caught up within Settings › Retention & schedule › Catch up a missed backup within, 12 hours by default). Two things must be on: the server's schedules (the cron file) and the job's schedule.

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On the screen​

  • Server's schedules: Turn the schedules on, in the step 6 drawer of Bring from JetBackup (asks for the app code).
  • Job's schedule: a job imported paused turns its schedule on when it is taken over.

On the command line​

root@server
# turn the server's schedules on (writes /etc/cron.d/salvo-backup)
/var/lib/salvo/salvo schedules-enable
# only shows whether they are on and when they last ran
/var/lib/salvo/salvo schedules-enable --show
# each job's schedule, retention and next run
/var/lib/salvo/salvo schedule-show

The file schedules-enable writes:

/etc/cron.d/salvo-backup
* * * * * root /var/lib/salvo/salvo schedule-run --state /var/lib/salvo

Resume a job without taking it over​

To run the Salvo schedule of a paused job while JetBackup keeps running it too (both back up):

root@server
/var/lib/salvo/salvo job-pause --job N --resume

To make Salvo the only owner and turn JetBackup's job off, use Take over a job instead.