topic Re: Snapcreator Schedules: Monthly Policy with frequency weekly? in Data Protection https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Snapcreator-Schedules-Monthly-Policy-with-frequency-weekly/m-p/70489#M2966 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You can use the cron option.</P><P>Here is the documentation on how to setup the schedule.</P><P><A href="http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-1.x/tutorials/crontrigger" target="_blank">http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-1.x/tutorials/crontrigger</A></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Kapil</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:31:20 GMT Arora_Kapil 2012-03-16T13:31:20Z Snapcreator Schedules: Monthly Policy with frequency weekly? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Snapcreator-Schedules-Monthly-Policy-with-frequency-weekly/m-p/70484#M2965 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi All</P><P></P><P>I want Create a Monthly Schedule with frequency monthly. But only the following frequencies are selecteable:</P><P>once</P><P>hourly</P><P>daily</P><P>weekly</P><P>cron</P><P></P><P>No frequency monthly is available, right? </P><P>So I have to use "Windows Task Scheduler" for creating a Job with a monthly frequency?</P><P></P><P>TIA</P><P>Thomas</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:32:13 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Snapcreator-Schedules-Monthly-Policy-with-frequency-weekly/m-p/70484#M2965 brauntvr2swiss 2025-06-05T06:32:13Z Re: Snapcreator Schedules: Monthly Policy with frequency weekly? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Snapcreator-Schedules-Monthly-Policy-with-frequency-weekly/m-p/70489#M2966 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You can use the cron option.</P><P>Here is the documentation on how to setup the schedule.</P><P><A href="http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-1.x/tutorials/crontrigger" target="_blank">http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-1.x/tutorials/crontrigger</A></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Kapil</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:31:20 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Snapcreator-Schedules-Monthly-Policy-with-frequency-weekly/m-p/70489#M2966 Arora_Kapil 2012-03-16T13:31:20Z Re: Snapcreator Schedules: Monthly Policy with frequency weekly? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Snapcreator-Schedules-Monthly-Policy-with-frequency-weekly/m-p/70495#M2967 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We are adding a monthly option but for now use cron. Our task scheduler is very powerful as it comes with its own built-in cron mode which works on windows and unix and isnt dependent on cron, we just call it that since it is similar.</P><P></P><P>Here are examples of how to set the cron scheduler in SC, please give this a try:</P><P><A class="active_link" href="http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-1.x/tutorials/crontrigger" title="http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-1.x/tutorials/crontrigger" target="_blank">http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-1.x/tutorials/crontrigger</A></P><P></P><P>SC scheduler is 100X better than task manager <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="wink" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/5.0.1/images/emoticons/wink.gif"></SPAN></P><P></P><P>This for example would run on last day of every month at 10:15am</P><P><TT>0 15 10 L * ?</TT></P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P></P><P>Keith</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:32:49 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Snapcreator-Schedules-Monthly-Policy-with-frequency-weekly/m-p/70495#M2967 ktenzer 2012-03-16T13:32:49Z Re: Snapcreator Schedules: Monthly Policy with frequency weekly? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Snapcreator-Schedules-Monthly-Policy-with-frequency-weekly/m-p/70504#M2968 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Kapil/Keith </P><P></P><P>Thanks for the quick answer... Its great to become useful solutions in such a short Time <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy"></SPAN>.</P><P></P><P>I dont have understand this cron "Thing". I have thinked this is for SC Server running on UNIX Systems only.</P><P> But after your explanation its clearly for me and cron is perfectly for our Environment.....</P><P></P><P>Greetz,Thanks and have a nice Weekend</P><P></P><P>Thomas</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:19:46 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Snapcreator-Schedules-Monthly-Policy-with-frequency-weekly/m-p/70504#M2968 brauntvr2swiss 2012-03-16T14:19:46Z Re: Snapcreator Schedules: Monthly Policy with frequency weekly? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Snapcreator-Schedules-Monthly-Policy-with-frequency-weekly/m-p/70508#M2969 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Happy to help!</P><P></P><P>This community is a key part of Snap Creator so there are many on here watching and helping, always feel free to ask for help here <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/5.0.1/images/emoticons/happy.gif"></SPAN></P><P></P><P>Have a great weekend!</P><P></P><P>Keith</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:55:08 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Snapcreator-Schedules-Monthly-Policy-with-frequency-weekly/m-p/70508#M2969 ktenzer 2012-03-16T14:55:08Z