Rob Owens wrote:
> Nick Smith wrote:
>> I have some clients that take 3 days or better to do a full backup, i
>> would like to do 1 full backup a month, and 1 incr backup every day,
>> and keep 1 week worth of incr and only 1 full backup.  What happens
>> when there is still a full backup going on and i schedule and incr
>> everyday?  will it wait until the full is done or will it try to do an
>> incr with a full backup still in progress?  I would assume that the
>> incr would fail if it doesnt have a full backup to work off of
>> correct?  Is there a certain way im suppose to schedule the backups to
>> accomplish what i want to do?
> 
> BackupPC has "smart" scheduling.  It doesn't do cron-type scheduling,
> such as doing an incremental backup every day at a certain time.  It
> will not start a backup for a host if one is already running.
> 
> -Rob

I have long running full backups as well.  I'm wondering if
it's possible to have fulls only done on weekends, but
incremental happen daily?

Thanks.


Andy


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