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Question on Schedules in v2: How to schedule them (v0.23)? And some extra questions

Open arberg opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Hi,

I really like the new v2 format, and resticprofile in general. I see Fred and jkellerer are working actively on schedule-v2, so possibly I just need patience. (?) But probably its just that I cannot find the right way to trigger the command, hence this question. I'll probably end up scheduling it manually until the format stabilized, but I figured it doesn't hurt asking.

Question

My question: Is it possible in v0.23.0 to use the schedule section? If so, how do I ask resticprofile to schedule it? I have schedules working when I add them to the profile, but not when adding to the new schedules root-section.

What I'm trying to achieve:

I would like to have one task that runs the backups sequentially to avoid getting into unnecessary self-lock issues (with the forget) and to avoid spamming HDD with concurrent requests from the same PC. So I want all my 'daily' backups to run sequentially, and all my hourly backups to run sequentially (though I have only one of those at the momement). So two TaskScheduler tasks, 1 daily and 1 hourly. The v2-schedules seem perfect for this (to avoid my own custom *.ps1 scripts and managing tasks myself directly).

Commands

Commands that work, but the schedule commands ONLY work when i have schedule subsection under root.backup. If I remove that schedule section in the believe that my root schedules section should work, it does not work

  • .\resticprofile.exe -c test.yaml maindrives.backup
  • .\resticprofile.exe -c test.yaml maindrives.schedule
    • This will schedule individual
  • .\resticprofile.exe -c test.yaml schedule --all
    • This will schedule all including my root

Commands that does not work:

  • .\resticprofile.exe -c test.yaml maindrives.schedule

Configuration

This is my profile.yaml file (I have cleaned it to remove what I deemed irrelevant, and tested this test-file):

version: "2"

profiles:

  root:
    password-file: "restic-encryption-password.txt"
    backup:
      use-fs-snapshot: true # Note that VSS Snapshot does not work on all remote drives, such as USB-sticks
      group-by: "host,tags"
      exclude-if-present: .nobackup-restic

      iexclude-file:
        - windows.exclude

      repository: "\\\\towerAdministrator\\windowsbackup\\Restic\\windows"

# Individual schedules work when this is included, inside this root.backup section:
      # schedule: daily #'*:00,30'
      # schedule-permission: system
      # schedule-priority: background
      # schedule-lock-mode: default
      # schedule-lock-wait: 215m30s
      # schedule-log: logs/profile-backup.log

# ----------

  drivec:
    inherit: root
    tag:
      - "C:\\"
    backup:
      schedule-log: logs/profile-drivec.log
      source:
        - "C:\\"


  drived:
    inherit: root
    tag:
      - "D:\\"
    backup:
      schedule-log: logs/profile-drived.log
      source:
        - "D:\\"

groups:
  maindrives:
    continue-on-error: true
    profiles:
      - drivec
      - drived
#      - development

schedules:
    full: # give a name to your schedule
        group: maindrives
        schedule:
            - "Mon..Fri *:00,15,30,45" # every 15 minutes on weekdays
        permission: system
        run: backup # backup is the default if not specified

Extra questions

I use inheritance, because I have not gotten mixins to work in v0.23. My root profiles also show up in the help overview .\resticprofile.exe . Is it possible to inform resticprofile that those are just for inheritance and should thus be ignored in help-overview and in schedule --all ? This does not matter much, but seems nice-to-have if using inheritance.

Would you prefer if I write stuff like this elsewhere, like on the restic-forum?

arberg avatar Oct 07 '23 08:10 arberg

My question: Is it possible in v0.23.0 to use the schedule section? If so, how do I ask resticprofile to schedule it? I have schedules working when I add them to the profile, but not when adding to the new schedules root-section.

Sorry, the work is in progress. I know it's not going very fast but since I changed job I don't have much time in the evenings any more 😞

For now, you can use all the features of the v2 configuration but the enhanced scheduling. There's a (almost 1 year old) MR for it https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile/pull/146 which requires a great deal of refactoring to make v1 and v2 available together (I don't want to break the configuration for everybody all of a sudden)

I use inheritance, because I have not gotten mixins to work in v0.23. My root profiles also show up in the help overview .\resticprofile.exe . Is it possible to inform resticprofile that those are just for inheritance and should thus be ignored in help-overview and in schedule --all ? This does not matter much, but seems nice-to-have if using inheritance.

Not right now, but that's a good idea. I'll keep it in the back of my mind 😄

Would you prefer if I write stuff like this elsewhere, like on the restic-forum?

Here is perfectly fine 😉

Thank you for your detailed description 👍🏻

creativeprojects avatar Oct 07 '23 14:10 creativeprojects

Sorry, the work is in progress. I know it's not going very fast but since I changed job I don't have much time in the evenings any more 😞

I feel for you there :) I'm also stuck on low energy a lot these days, and not getting done what I want. Though in your case it might not actually be a bad thing having a full and busy day, just bad for resticprofile :)

Let me give my thanks while I have your ear. I have loved playing around with restic, and I love what resticprofile does for restic, making it configurable instead of scripts.

Thank you for letting me know, about the WIP about v2 schedules.

Might you be welcoming a pull-request on the documentation?

I'm thinking of updating this page, adding info that the schedule section is not yet available, but that the others are:

https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile/blob/master/docs/content/configuration/v2/_index.md

I might also add some examples there if I find it useful, I'm not sure yet.

Ahh, so v2 being work-in-progress, is that also the reason why mix-ins doesn't work? I couldn't get those working at all, but it might be that I was just trying the v2-format. I'm not sure.

arberg avatar Oct 08 '23 17:10 arberg

Might you be welcoming a pull-request on the documentation?

Certainly, any help is always welcome 👍🏻

Ahh, so v2 being work-in-progress, is that also the reason why mix-ins doesn't work? I couldn't get those working at all, but it might be that I was just trying the v2-format. I'm not sure.

That could be a bug, mixins should be working. What were you trying to do?

creativeprojects avatar Oct 12 '23 15:10 creativeprojects

the proposed schedule section for v2 is abandoned. v1 schedules will continue to work with v2

creativeprojects avatar Apr 02 '24 20:04 creativeprojects