On 26/05/2009 Tino Schwarze wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:39:08AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to make backuppc keep the old backups with at least one
> > full and all following incremental backups of a client host that does
> > not exist any longer?
> >
> > Currently I simply set $Conf{FullPeriod} = -1 and $Conf{IncrPeriod} = -1
> > for those hosts, but unfortunately backuppc spams me with warning mails
> > periodically that the hosts have not been backupped for X days.
>
> There's a variable to set the mail notification interval (it works per
> host). I've set it to a year, so I get a reminder every year and might
> decide to finally remove the host.
Thanks a lot. I now have set the following for old/removed client hosts:
# disable new backups
$Conf{FullPeriod} = -1;
$Conf{IncrPeriod} = -1;
# yearly notify mails
$Conf{EMailNotifyMinDays} = 365;
$Conf{EMailNotifyOldBackupDays} = 365;
greetings,
jonas
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