On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Tapio Lehtonen
<tapio.lehtonen AT satatuuli DOT fi> wrote:
> Running backuppc 3.3.0-2+deb8u1 on Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 Jessie.
>
> Used command
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup 192.168.42.2 humppa
> backuppc 1
> to force full backup.
>
> The request appears in the log but seems to have no effect.
>
> I tried to force the full backup to run friday night, but seems the
> serverMesg backup does not have any effect. I googled for old mailing list
> entries, and found about serverMesg and the syntax it uses. I also read this
> is the way backups should be started from command line, and not using
> BackupPC_dump.
>
> The reason I am trying to do this from cron is to correct the tendency of
> the backup start times to creep forward. Eventually the full backups start
> so late in the monday morning they are still running during working hours. I
> remember I read about this in this mailing list sometime previously, but did
> not find that list entry now that I tried to do it myself.

Not sure about the command line problem, but I used to occasionally
force full runs to start on a host or two as I was leaving work on
Fridays using the web interface so they would have the weekend to
complete if necessary - and to correct any time-skew that might have
happened.  This was slightly before the blackout time would end so
there would not be a problem with concurrent scheduled runs.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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