BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] force full save on weekends

2008-10-28 06:45:11
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] force full save on weekends
From: Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:39:23 +0100
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:11:59AM +0100, Sebastian Perkins wrote:

> > Sadly, I don't think this page is terribly easy to find. One kind of has to 
> > know what to look for in order to find it. So it can't really blame people 
> > for not seeing it. Here's how to do what you want, at any rate. 
> > 
> > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/Schedule_Backups_With_Cron 
> 
> Le wiki page looks fine to me. I can therefore schedule backups "full" over 
> the weekend and "incr" them during weekdays. 
> 
> I'm not the backuppc user (my english is slighter better !) : is there a way 
> to force backuppc just to use the crontab ? 

Yes, you simple disable regular backups via $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 1;
Then run the backups "manually" via crontab using BackupPC_serverMsg as
described in the wiki page.

HTH,

Tino.

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