I have scripts run from cron that:

1. do full backups on Fridays
2. do full backups on the last day of the month
3. prunes (deletes) backups based on a schedule, in my case:
     a. delete all full backups that don't land on a Friday or the last day of 
the month
     b. keep monthly backups for 15 month
     c. keep yearly backups for 7 years
     d. keep weekly backups for 10 weeks

Works like a charm, and made accounting happy.  At one point (before the 
scripts), the end of month backup was an incremental, and was deleted in 
BackupPC's regular fashion.  Oops.  They needed the month end data again, and 
all I could give them was a couple of days before or after.  i still let 
BackupPC delete incrementals whenever it wants.

Gerald

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bowie Bailey" <Bowie_Bailey AT BUC DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:23:51 AM
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

On 4/14/2011 12:04 PM, Jake Wilson wrote:
> I did search Google and researched the topic in the wiki and
> documentation and the only thing I could find remotely related was the
> cron scheduling page in the wiki.  If a question is asked (and
> answered) a lot I guess I would expect to see the best solutions at
> least listed on the wiki.  But it's not.  Sorry for 'wasting' your time.

The reason you didn't find anything other than cron scheduling is that
BackupPC does not have any features for strict scheduling of backups. 
The best it can do is to schedule the full backup as "1 week from the
last successful full backup" and this is susceptible to creep due to
failed backups (Saturday's full backup fails, so it tries again on
Sunday...future full backups are now done on Sundays).  If you need
something more structured, you have to go to cron.

-- 
Bowie

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload 
Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top
priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve 
application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting 
the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload 
Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top
priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve 
application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting 
the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/