Scheduling Restarts Using Crontab

For UNIX clients, you can schedule service restarts using a Crontab file.

Note

If services go down during a process, the commvault start command will not restart services unless the command is included in the crontab file.

Procedure

Use the following steps to create the Crontab file:

Log on to a client computer as root.
At the command prompt, type the command to edit the crontab file:
```
crontab -e
    
```
At the command prompt, type the command to display the crontab file:
```
crontab -l
    
```
Use the following command to schedule a restart - the following example will start the service at 7:00 am on the first day of each month.
```
071**/<software installation path>/Base/commvault start
    
```
Where 071** indicates the following:

0 = Minute (0-59)

7 = Hour (0-23)

1 = Day of Month (1-31)

* = Month (1-12 or Jan-Dec)

* = Day of Week (0-6 or Sun-Sat)
Type :wq to save the changes made.
Alternatively, you can also open the crontab file from the client computer, set the restart time and then save the file.