Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

I see your point about restoring with the GUI. On the other hand, as Les said about database dumps, I'm afraid you could not be saving much with BackupPC

If you are going to cron delete backups, I looked to Matthias Meyer delete scipt again. This lines may help

    while read CLine
    do
        BackupNumber=`echo $CLine | awk '{print $1}'`
        BackupType=`echo $CLine | awk '{print $2}'`
        BackupTime=`stat -c "%y" $TopDir/pc/$client/$BackupNumber | awk '{print $1}'`
        echo "BackupNumber $BackupNumber - $BackupType-Backup from $BackupTime"

       # Some conditional delete here?

    done < $TopDir/pc/$client/backups

[...]

        echo "`date +\"%Y-%m-%d %T\"` BackupPC_deleteBackup delete $TopDir/pc/$client/$bNumber" >> $LogDir/LOG
        rm -fr $TopDir/pc/$client/$bNumber > /dev/null 2>&1

Good Luck
Luis

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Gerald Brandt <gbr AT majentis DOT com> wrote:

----- "Luis Paulo" <luis.barbas AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> If what you want to is keep a full backup for the last day of every month,
>
> Why not make a zip dump on those days and store it on a disk?
>
>
>

Although a sound plan, and something that can be automated, it overrides BackupPC's hardlink mechanism and increases storage. Plus, restore becomes a manual process of going to the proper zip file and restoring manually.

If I was the only admin, then restores would be a minor inconvenience. Since I'm not, it becomes troublesome.

Gerald

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