On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:06:17PM -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:

>  > I want to schedule one Full backup every Sunday at 21:15 and five
>  > Incremental backups at 00:30 on every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
>  > and Saturday.
>  > 
>  > This is something really, really easy to do using NTbackup and Task
>  > Scheduler on Windows computers, but I have a Zimbra/Ubuntu server and can't
>  > use NTbackup.
> 
> Well, BackupPC has a different but arguably more sophisticated and
> robust version of backup scheduling.
> 
> If all you want to do is to run a fixed backup job at the exact same
> time every week, then you don't need to use the sophisticated default
> scheduler. Just turn off all job scheduling in config.pl and run
> simple cron jobs calling: BackupPC_dump [-i] [-f] <client>
>   where -i = incremental
>               -f = full

I'd rather use BackupPC_serverMsg...

+1 for adding that to BackupPC. If people want exact control, they
should get it.

Tino.

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