Yes, finally.  I got it.  I can set a deferral time for each host in such a
way that the first Full Backup starts the day and time I want it to start,
then the Incremental(s) will follow the correct sequence, and so on.

This way we can set indirectly the start date and time for each backup
without using the cron job method.

Maybe this is in the FAQ or the WIKI, but if not will be nice to be there. 

Thanks,

Jose Torres

-----Original Message-----
From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:34 PM
To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Really confused with scheduling

Jose Torres wrote:
> Actually I could go by setting the time by using the WakeupSchedule and
> having all backups run at the same time,
> But I do need to have the Full backup to run in a certain day and the
> Incremental(s) on the other days.
> 
> By setting Blackouts you can set a window within a day but is always the
> same window for all backups, so how can I make the Full backup only to run
> on Sunday or any specific day of the week?

You can manually start a full with the web interface on the day of the 
week that you'd like fulls to run and unless something drastic goes 
wrong they will continue to happen on that day of the week, simply 
because the next full won't start until 6.97 days have passed - and the 
next wakeup happens.

> I see that I can set the period between Full backups and Incremental(s),
but
> that is once the first backup is run the periods take place, but, when the
> first backup is going to run?

Usually they start immediately when you add a host - or at the next 
wakeup.  If you don't want that, you can stop it and/or defer the run 
for a specified amount of time.

>  What I see is tonight will be the first Full
> backup if I set the BackupsDisable to 0 today.  I do not think that is a
> good way to set the start date of the backup sequences.

If it has completed a run, you can either log in and force a full at the 
time you want the cycle to repeat or use a cron job to start it.  If it 
hasn't done the first one, go to the place you would stop a run and put 
in the time to defer before starting.

> One should be able to set at least a start date for each of the Full
backups
> for each Host in a deterministic way, then letting the scheduler take the
> control.

You can.   But note also that the Blackout period doesn't take effect 
until a host has been detected as up outside of the blackout period. 
This is to ensure that hosts that are turned off at night still have 
backups done when possible.   But, if you defer the start of the first 
run - or add the host late in the day - the interval between runs will 
take care of it after that.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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