Ntbackup

[kierankelly]

Is there any way using Ntbackup, to select which job to carry out when there are two scheduled jobs on one day at the exact same time?

As an example, I have scheduled a monthly backup to be carried out on the last wednesday of every month (Month7, Month8, Month9 etc), as well as a monthly backup on every 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th wednesday of every month (Wk1, Wk2, Wk3 etc). The majority of months, Wk4 backup clashes with the MonthX backup. I would like to configure Ntbackup to choose to carry out the month backup over the week backup but I cant figure out how. Do you have to use the command line? Any help is appreciated.

[allen2]

You just need to use a batch and task scheduler.

This batch can solve the problem:

:begin
rem wait for a random few seconds
set /A A=%random%/100
ping -n %A% 127.0.0.1
rem end of random wait code
if exit %temp%\ntbackupinprgrs.txt goto end
if not exist %temp%\ntbackupinprgrs.txt goto next
goto begin
:next
Echo Ntbackup in progress >%temp%\ntbackupinprgrs.txt 
rem add your ntbackup command line below.


goto end
:end

You could remove the random wait code safely.