Scheduler on OSX

[saulius]

Hey!

Thanks for a great app. It looks to me like the scheduler gets lost after a sleep and wakeup cycle on a Mac. Here's my current situation at 11:07 local time:

I think it resets and continues to work fine on an hourly basis if I run a manual snapshot. Is there an automatic solution to this? Thanks!

[saulius]

At 11:50 local time the situation looks like this:

:)

[goebbe]

@saulius Perhaps the cron-type scheduling is closer to your expectations?

The following will trigger a backup every full hour (when your computer is up and running):

schedule:
  enabled: true
  cron: "0 */1 * * *"          # every hour

[saulius]

@goebbe thanks! I think it's a bit more predictable.

The laptop was not open at 06:41 today :)

[goebbe]

@goebbe thanks! I think it's a bit more predictable.
the laptop was not open at 06:41 today :)

"Time" should correspond to the moment a backup has been finished. This can lead to unexpected results,
e.g. when send you laptop to sleep during a backup or when the internet connection is down, or when the server is down, ...

Do you have useful information in the logs?

[saulius]

The logs are mostly filled with:

Nothing unusual I guess. For my use case your suggested fix:

schedule:
  enabled: true
  cron: "0 */1 * * *"

Works as expected. I think the problem was with every: 1h when it sometimes missed the backup for days until I noticed it.

[goebbe]

the problem was with every: 1h when it sometimes missed the backup for days until I noticed it.

This would definitely be a bug.
When the computer comes back from sleep - it should definitely run a backup "every hour".