On 11/3/2010 10:54 AM, Rob Poe wrote:
> Is there a way to control the day that the full backup happens?  I have
> a server I'm backing up that has more than 450 gigs, and the full backup
> takes ~ 2 days, which I'd like to happen over a weekend.
>
> So I'd like the full to take place on a Friday.

The simple way is to start a full from the web interface at about the 
time you'd like them to repeat and let the approximately-weekly timing 
take it from there.

> Unless BackupPC makes a "full" backup after the first one that is really
> only an rsync of what it already has...

Yes, if you are using rsync or rsynd, it will only transfer the 
differences.  However, the full runs do take longer than incrementals 
because backuppc adds the --ignore-times option to rsync which makes it 
read and do a block checksum comparison of all files - but only the 
differences are sent so it doesn't take a lot more bandwidth.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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