We have 30 servers.
We are doing our backups jobs in the night on two backup servers via cron job.

Script does as below:

If backup server1 is not available, it will placed the backup on backupserver2.
If both backup servers are not available, we will get notification that both servers are not available.

But now we want backup will rerun after three hours.

Script:

umount /mnt/bkupserver1 /mnt/bkupserver2
mount 00.00.00.9:/bkup /mnt/bkupserver1
if [ -d /mnt/bkupserver1/prtlprd3 ]; then
# The preferred directory exists, so use it
cd /mnt/bkupserver1/prtlprd3
Subject="TAR Backup for prtlprd3 has been done on bkupserver1"
else
mount 00.00.00.8:/bkupserver2/data /mnt/bkupserver2
if [ -d /mnt/bkupserver2/prtlprd3 ]; then
cd /mnt/bkupserver2/prtlprd3
Subject="TAR Backup for prtlprd3 has been done on bkupserver2 because bkupserver1 is not available"
else
echo "Mount to bkupserver1 and bkupserver2 are not available, please try again later. | mutt -x -s "TAR Backup Failed, Both backup Servers are not available" Bobwoolmerjr@google.com
exit 1
fi
fi
cd /mnt/bkupserver1/prtlprd3
rm prtlprd3.bk*
today=$(date '+%m%d%y')
tar -czvf prtlprd3.bk_"$today".tar.tgz /opt/IBM/WebSphere
/home/bw/TARStatus > /home/bw/TARStatus.log
mail -s "$Subject" Bobwoolmerjr@google.com< /home/bw/TARStatus.log

Put your code in CODE tags, please. And if you want it to rerun, put a sleep statement in it, or schedule an AT job to rerun it at a later time.

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Could you please show me where should I put sleep statement in the code?

We want to rerun only on the failure otherwise first backup is fine.

You could add a simple wrapper script and check the exit status of the backup job. If exit status (ie $?) is not zero, then sleep 3hrs and re-run, else exit wrapper.