> that's because you've got an extraneous parameter (<pass>), which probably
> evaluates to 'true'.

Ahhh -- I read the instructions incorrectly (or too fast -- same thing). 
Thanks!

> Yes. But I agree with Les that it doesn't hurt to fall back to automatic
> scheduling when your cron jobs fail for some reason. Unless your 
> requirements
> say "no backup is better than backups that are not synchronous".

With these 4 particular servers, if it's not done within the same hour then 
any backup would be a waste of space. They are clustered data partitions and 
the data backups must match. Each run their own backup every hour and 
backuppc simply takes the last 2 off each server nightly in case of some 
total disaster, but they all have to run between the same hour.

> How do you think the CGI requests are implemented? ;-)
Hah. I know this, but what I did not know is in what way the code checked 
(or if it even checked) how the script was started. I didn't know if there 
was a flag that simply looked to see {if executed via the web interface; 
then run; else ignore}.

> You ran the cron job(s) as backuppc user, right? Did you get any mail with 
> any
> output? Have you got syslog entries showing that the jobs were actually 
> run?
This was user-error. It *should* run as expected tonight.


> Hi,
>
> Clint Alexander wrote on 2009-08-17 09:10:20 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
> Feature Requests and such?]:
>> [...]
>> I tested the idea of using Cron for incrementals:
>> BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup <ip>  <host> <user> <pass> 0
>>
>> I used 0 for incremental, but for some strange reason -- it wanted to
>> perform a full backup even though the last backup done yesterday was a 
>> full
>> (go figure).
>
> that's because you've got an extraneous parameter (<pass>), which probably
> evaluates to 'true'.
>
>> But the real question is: If I want to run these 4 backups from Cron, I
>> should turn the BackupsDisabled to 1, right?
>
> Yes. But I agree with Les that it doesn't hurt to fall back to automatic
> scheduling when your cron jobs fail for some reason. Unless your 
> requirements
> say "no backup is better than backups that are not synchronous".
>
>> The documentation says it will allow any CGI requests, but it doesn't say
>> anything about commands at the console.
>
> How do you think the CGI requests are implemented? ;-)
>
>> I ask because I had BackupsDisabled
>> set to 1 on these 4 servers and none of them had run last night from 
>> Cron.
>
> You ran the cron job(s) as backuppc user, right? Did you get any mail with 
> any
> output? Have you got syslog entries showing that the jobs were actually 
> run?
>
> Regards,
> Holger 


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