Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Are you aware of any backup tool that might be more suitable for what I 
>> need? My script works well and I'm happy with it, but I wouldn't mind 
>> getting some additional features like compression and exponential 
>> backups which my script doesn't do.
> 
> The quick fix might be a cron job to start/stop the service at 
> appropriate times for you.  I think it will do the test you want at 
> startup - or it would be easy to add in the startup script.

Snag is that I don't know ahead of time how long BackupPC needs to 
finish a given backup. I don't want to interrupt it part-way through a 
backup. I would be nice if I could get BackupPC to stop itself whenever 
it finishes doing a backup. Then it would look more like a cron job and 
less like an always-an daemon. But I don't suppose that there is an easy 
way to make it do that.

It would be nice to have a non-daemon version of BackupPC...  Hmm... I 
guess I could setup a series of cron jobs to run the various BackupPC_* 
programs. But I don't know if I dare try something like that. Who knows 
what the consequences might be.

Daniel.

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