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Example 2: Running a Schedule in a Cron Job
In this example, the scheduled operation is included in a cron table. You can modify the schedule with ASMCLI (see Updating a Schedule)
without modifying any scripts or cron tables. That is, you can change the options on the create smart-copy command at the
command line through ASM without making other changes.
# asmcli list schedule
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Schedules
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Name: 15min
Command: asmcli create schedule --keep 4 --output error
--retry-count 12 --comment "Test schedule cron: 15 minutes"
--type snapshot --collection test1
Name: hourly
Command: asmcli create schedule --keep 12 --output error
--retry-count 12 --comment "Test schedule cron: hourly"
--type snapshot --collection test1
Name: test2
Command: asmcli create schedule --retry-wait 60 --comment "Test
schedule test2" --type snapshot --collection test2
Name: test3
Command: asmcli create schedule --keep 0 --type snapshot --collection test3
4 schedules found.
# crontab -l
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/root/bin
# Run this scheduled operation every 15 minutes
*/15 * * * * asmcli do schedule --name 15min >/dev/null
# Run this scheduled operation every hour
0 * * * * asmcli do schedule --name hourly >/dev/null
Updating a Schedule
Use the asmcli update schedule command to modify and update a Smart Copy schedule by providing a name and list of one or
more mount points. Use this command to change existing schedules by adding or replacing existing options. For example, you can modify a
schedule to create Smart Copy replicas instead of snapshots.
asmcli update schedule Command Syntax
The command syntax is as follows:
# asmcli update schedule
--name schedule-name | -n
[--collection collection-name | -c]
[--comment comment-string | -c]
[--delete option1 [option2]
[--force | -F]
[--freeze-time n]
[--group-access-file=file-location |-g]
[--keep n| -N]
[--new-name new-schedule-name | -N]
[--output error | always]
[--retry-count n | -r]
[--retry-wait n | -w]
[--source mount-point1 [mount-point2...] | -s]
[--type volume-type | -t]
[--user-name user-name | -u]
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