BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Disabling incremental to enable Full

2008-10-31 05:29:16
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Disabling incremental to enable Full
From: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:21:03 +1100
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Alexandre - ArchivTech wrote:
> Well, it seem that setting incrperiod to 0 make it working correctly.
> 
> Just tried with a host that didn't start, because of high incrperiod
> (365), i put that to 0, and on the next hour, the full started! 
> 
> So, i think it's ok.
> 
> Thank you guys :D
> 
> Le vendredi 31 octobre 2008 à 19:04 +1100, Adam Goryachev a écrit :
> Alexandre - ArchivTech wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> Juste asking you on question on planning execution.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to disable incremental since i use rsync, and so, full backups
>>>> are ok for my needs giving me the same results as incremental.
>>>>
>>>> But, in order to disable incremental, i set Incrperiod to 360 for
>>>> incremental, and, 0.97 For full period.
>>>>
>>>> But, if i make a manual incremental (incrkeepcnt 1), then no more full
>>>> backup happen ! Because backuppc seem to think it's ok with de last
>>>> incremental, it then doesn't launch the full one.
> What if you set set FullPeriod and IncrPeriod to the same value? That
> way, if a incremental backup is due, then a full backup is also due, and
> backuppc should do a full backup if both incr and full are due. (Not
> that I've tested it, but I would like to think that is how it will work).

Except you will probably get a new incremental every hour along with
your full backup daily :) (assuming it takes less than one hour for an
incremental backup to complete, and you use the default wakeup schedule.....

Then again, backuppc might be smart enough to know that 0 = disable ...

Regards,
Adam

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Adam Goryachev
Website Managers
www.websitemanagers.com.au
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