normally a full backup for me takes about 2-3 days. does the count for
6.97 days start at the beginning or end of the last full backup?? if
it counts at the end then the next full backup won't always start on
Friday, even if i force the first full backup to start on a Friday.
also if for some reason the full backup times out and consequently
delays then the 7 day cycle for each Friday is thrown off.

i read this post:
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
net/msg05466.html
which had this suggestion:

" - initiate full backups from cron with BackupPC_serverMesg, slightly before
  the time the incremental would normally run, and set $Conf {FullPeriod} to
  more than 7 days so the BackupPC scheduler won't interfere."

but this suggestion doesn't make a whole lot of sense for me. why
would i want to initiate a full backup slightly before the
incremental????

any more suggestions???

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Les Mikesell <les AT futuresource DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> Leandro Tracchia wrote:
>>
>> i have a full back scheduled to run every 6.97 days. i want the full backup 
>> to start only if it is Friday. i don't want it to run during the work week. 
>> for example, so if 6.97 days after the last full backup falls on Tuesday, 
>> how can i tell backuppc to wait until the coming Friday to start the full 
>> backup? is this possible??
>
> The simple way is to manually force a full run on Friday.  The 
> next/subsequent runs won't start until a week has elapsed since the last one.
>
> --
>  Les Mikesell
>   lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace.
It's the best place to buy or sell services for
just about anything Open Source.
http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php
_______________________________________________
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/