task scheduler - exclude dates

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I have a backup script that I'm gooing to run through task scheduler. I can
use TS to run the Mon backup script every Monday and the Tuesday....etc.
But I also have another task that runs a seperate backup at the end of each
month. So, can I easily program the Monday task, for example, to run all
Mondays except a specific Monday that turns out to be the last day of the
month? Or am I going to have to spend a little cash?
Thanks,
Jeremy
 
Re: task scheduler - exclude dates


"Jeremy Schubert" <jscc@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a backup script that I'm gooing to run through task scheduler. I
>can use TS to run the Mon backup script every Monday and the
>Tuesday....etc.
> But I also have another task that runs a seperate backup at the end of
> each month. So, can I easily program the Monday task, for example, to run
> all Mondays except a specific Monday that turns out to be the last day of
> the month? Or am I going to have to spend a little cash?
> Thanks,
> Jeremy

You could do this:
- Schedule the every-day job to run at 10pm.
- Schedule the end-of-month job to run at 9pm.
- Get the end-of-month job to create a marker file.
- Get the every-day job to check for the existence of the marker file.
If the marker file exists, delete it and exit.
If the marker file does not exist, perform the backup.
 
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