Checkpointing on NT - Anth...@thuridion.com - com.perforce.perforce-user

10 messages in com.perforce.perforce-userCheckpointing on NT

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Sully	23 Nov 1998 17:00
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Subject:	Checkpointing on NT
From:	Anth...@thuridion.com (Anth...@thuridion.com)
Date:	11/23/1998 09:28:40 PM
List:	com.perforce.perforce-user

What problems are you having with the NT Scheduler? Doesn't something like "at 1:00am /every:M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su do-perforce-checkpoint.bat" where the batch file contains all the commands you want to run work?

The other option, which is what we do, is set the batch file to run within a tape backup program (since you still need to backup the RCS files, even if you do a checkpoint). We use Seagate BackupExec 7 which allows you specify a command to run before and after backups. The allows the backup software to wait until the checkpoint has been completed before doing the backup. Most decent backup software supports doing this.

Hope that helps, ---Anthony

Stephen Vance <steve at vance.com> on 11/23/98 09:03:54 PM

To: "Sully, Archer" <sully at pdri.xerox.com>

cc: perforce-user at perforce.com(bcc: Anthony Shaffer/Thuridion)

Subject: Re: Checkpointing on NT

Sully, Archer wrote:

Hi,

How do people deal with the lack of cron on NT for setting up checkpointing? I've thought of stringing together AT commands, but that seems both unpleasant and unreliable.

Any suggestions?

-- archer

There are several cron ports for NT, both free and commercial. For the free one's you can find some based off of the Cygwin32 toolkit at http://sourceware.cyngus.com/cygwin/. I believe you can get commercial versions through MKS, MainSoft, Bristol, etc.