Best practices for scheduled server reboots?

[btrcp2000]

Dumped Dish and went back to cable with two Colossus cards. Working well except for the issue of choppiness that is fixed by a reboot.

what's is the best interval (nightly, weekly, etc.) and method to schedule reboots? Script?

[KeithAbbott]

Maybe use something like this: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2487

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by btrcp2000

Dumped Dish and went back to cable with two Colossus cards. Working well except for the issue of choppiness that is fixed by a reboot.

what's is the best interval (nightly, weekly, etc.) and method to schedule reboots? Script?

It depends if you do not care about late night reboots you can just schedule a reboot using windows task scheduler. If you care if there is something recording and not reboot but only reboot when nothing is recording you need to use something like SJQ.

[graywolf]

Here is a groovy Test script to see if something is recording or will record in the next XX minutes. You can use something similiar and have it do a reboot if the test passes.

def now = System.currentTimeMillis()
def reqdMins = 30L
int ScheduledRecording = 0 ;

println " ";
Global.GetScheduledRecordingsForTime(now, now + (reqdMins * 60000L)).each { mfAiring ->
    if( AiringAPI.IsNotManualOrFavorite(mfAiring) ) { 
       println (ShowAPI.GetShowTitle(mfAiring) + " is LiveTV - no issue");
    } else {
       ScheduledRecording = ScheduledRecording + 1 ;
       println ( ShowAPI.GetShowTitle(mfAiring) + " is Scheduled to record within $reqdMins minutes") ;
    } 
}

if ( ScheduledRecording > 0 ) {
    // Scheduled Recording upcoming, Return for when it is safe
    println ( "Returned to Queue until safe to process");
    sleep 900000
    return 1
} else {
    // Looks to be safe, let's do this!!
    println ("Safe to kick off Backup job. No recordings scheduled within $reqdMins minutes");
    return 0
}