Scheduling a backup on just one day a month

[kbradnam]

Ok, so I checked first thing this morning and my 'monthly' backup had run again. The 'Next Copy' field is still unchanged saying Sunday December 4th.

I'd wager that this backup will run each day until the 8th and then stop again until the first.

Any thoughts on whether you think this is a glitch at my end with something that I've done wrong, or a glitch in your applescript that changes the cron 'or' functionality into an 'and'.

If you like, I'm prepared to let this backup run for another week to test my hypothesis :-)

Regards,

Keith

[dnanian]

Instead, set up a single scheduled item for sunday at about three minutes from now, just like the other one. Does it mysteriously run?

If so, please send your Crontab contents to the support address. I'd like to see what I can see in there, maybe there's a weird case I'm not handling in the script.

[kbradnam]

Good idea Dave (much smarter than my idea!).

I just tried this and lo and behold the backup started even though I specified to only run on the 1st Sunday. I'll email the offending crontab entry to you.

Regards,

Keith

[dnanian]

Cool, Keith -- thanks.

[dnanian]

OK. I'm pretty sure I know what's going on here, and -- if you're running into it -- here's how to fix:

• Navigate to the SuperDuper! application
• Control-click it and choose "Show Package Contents"
• In there, navigate to Contents/Resources
• Replace the "Copy Job Script.template" file in there with the one attached to this message (unzip first)
• Delete and reschedule your jobs

This fix will be in 2.0.2, when released.