BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Really confused with scheduling

2009-09-03 15:56:21
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Really confused with scheduling
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:52:12 -0500
Jose Torres wrote:
> If I set my FullPeriod to 10 (days) and the cron job runs every Saturday (7
> days), the FullPeriod will not be reached?

Yes, you can see the age of the last backup in the host summary web 
page.  The scheduler won't kick off another run until these reach the 
interval you've set.

> The BackupPC_nighly job will recognize the cron job backup data and will
> remove the old backups?

Yes, it doesn't care how the jobs that did the backups were started.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesll AT gmail DOT com


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