Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey AT BUC DOT com> wrote on 10/18/2011
05:01:48 PM:
> On 10/18/2011 4:29 PM, jcoxen wrote:
> > So are you recommending that I go back to the default
> WakeupSchedule but rotated around so that it starts at 10?
>
> You don't have to rotate it. The numbers don't have to be in
order.
> Just move 10 (or whatever time you want the BackupPC_nightly
> housekeeping job to run) to the front of the list.
Here's mine, which illustrates that: 10, 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
23
You can put it in whatever order you want. The
way it is above, it's clear that there's a reason 10 is in the front: it's
not random, and it's not in order. Smart people might wonder why,
and then read the help to find out why! :)
With BackupPC, you have to give up a little control
to get it to work best. Some people are like you (the original poster,
that is) and want it to run at a specific time: "Every Monday
and Thursday". It is *not* designed to work that way. (If
you wanted incrementals in that mix, it would be impossible to do without
scripting things *outside* of BackupPC, such as a cron job.) Some
people just must hold onto the bad old days of tape backup when *everything*
was launched by a cron job... forgetting what happens when you *miss*
that single moment in time.
The wakeup schedule is another example of people trying
to exercise total control over BackupPC. It's better to just let
it do its job than try to restrict it.
Admittedly, there are annoyances with this. For
example, a regular request is the ability to run a full backup on the last
day of the month. You can't do that within BackupPC alone. I
can certainly understand (e.g.) regulatory requirements for things like
that. But it's not how BackupPC is designed to work.
Tim Massey
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