Duplicati, Schedule repetition value must be a valid timespan

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Hi,
Is it possible to make copies only during working hours?
What would be the valid format?
custom
schedulerepetition

Regards

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Duplicati doesn’t support anything that robust. It has to be a simple timespan like every 2 hours, or every 1 day.

I like this idea though. Would be nice if you could somehow have a different schedule during work hours vs non-work hours.

If you really want to do a schedule like this, you could turn off Duplicati’s native scheduling and instead use something else like Task Manager on Windows or cron on Linux. You could have such a scheduler trigger jobs defined in the Web UI by using a third party tool like: GitHub - Pectojin/duplicati-client: A command line client for controlling the Duplicati Server

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A do-it-yourself method sometimes used for situations like USB drives only sometimes connected is:

placed in a –run-script-before script that decides whether the operation should be run now or not run.

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Thank you all for your contributions.
So I don’t understand what the “custom” window ?

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Good question, I don’t know either. All the most popular units are already shown in the dropdown.

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I think some other parts of Duplicati permit mixed units, e.g. 1W7D, so why not permit here too? :wink:
Just tested a backup today. Next run is in 2 weeks. Hours (h) minutes (m) seconds (s) are allowed, however the new time validator rejects minutes in 2.0.5.1. The problem has been fixed in 2.0.5.103.

EDIT:

The units dropdown probably just sticks the unit on for you, and the custom can skip that extra step.

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Oh really, I didn’t know you could use multiple units simultaneously. Good to know!