On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:46:58PM +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;

BTW: There's also a special setting $Conf{BackupsDisable} = -2 IIRC.

> # yearly notify mails 
> $Conf{EMailNotifyMinDays} = 365;
> $Conf{EMailNotifyOldBackupDays} = 365;

HTH,

Tino.

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