BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-26 19:57:15
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule
From: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:28:06 +1100
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Gerald Brandt wrote:
> That was actually my first thought, but the accounting system has
> EVERYTHING (accounting, inventory, payroll, in MS SQL Server) in it, so
> it would get prohibitively big.
> 
> I was thinking of 1 cron entry to do backups every Friday, and another
> one to do full backups on the last workday of every month.  I'm just not
> quite sure what to set myPeriod values to so that CRON override BackupPC.

Set the FullPeriod to 8 days, that way, if your cron job is wrong, then
backuppc will at least trigger the backup on the Saturday.

I'm assuming you will leave backuppc to trigger the daily incrementals
as needed?

Regards,
Adam

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Adam Goryachev
Website Managers
www.websitemanagers.com.au
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