Allow for better timing of scheduled backups [#3205950]

Problem/Motivation

Backup and Migrate run at arbitrary times. This can cause load on a site during a prime time.

Steps to reproduce

Set a scheduled backup. Notice the backup runs at an odd time.

Proposed resolution

Add a "Run after" time to the scheduling UI so we can set the time for Drupal cron to start including BAM tasks in the cron jobs. Add a run_after element to the config to set this. 0 would be default and this should result in no break in BC

Remaining tasks

None

User interface changes

Add a "Run after" time to the scheduling UI so we can set the time for Drupal cron to start including BAM tasks in the cron jobs

API changes

None

Data model changes

Add a run_after element to the config to set this. 0 would be default and this should result in no break in BC

Comments

Comment #1

26 March 2021 at 20:48

frob created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

frob

English

commented 26 March 2021 at 20:53

This is an issue that was brought up in the queue 12 years ago #313134: Allow setting scheduled time similar to cron job in that issue it was fixed with support for Elysa Cron.

The Ultimate Cron module has taken over for the Elysa Cron in D8 but the support over at Ultimate Cron is pretty slim --there hasn't been more than an alpha for years. And it is quite a huge module for something so simple. This can likely be solved with a few lines of code here, rather than requiring the inclusion of Ultimate Cron.