Re: [BackupPC-users] Auto Archiving of hosts
2010-02-09 11:41:17
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 08:01:59 am Timothy J Massey wrote:
> Michael Osburn <michael.osburn AT echostar DOT com> wrote on 02/08/2010
> 06:42:34
> PM:
>
> > I am looking for a way to automatically archive my oldest full
> > backups to a different mount point. The goal is to have fairly
> > recent backups stored off onto a SAN device, then remove the oldest
> > backup. I have looked at the archive host option, but this would
> > require a lot of manual intervention as we would need to select the
> > backups some time during the week and then letting the fulls age away.
>
> Is there a reason you're moving the *oldest*? The newest would be very
> easy. The oldest slightly more difficult.
>
> The archive command accepts negative numbers for the backup number. So,
> to get the most recent, simply use "-1". For the oldest, use the number
> of fulls plus the number of incrementals. Of course, if you haven't yet
> done enough backups to get that far yet, that won't work. That's the
> "slightly more difficult" part... :)
>
> I have a cron script that I run once a week to archive the latest backup
> to a removable hard drive. Let me know if you'd like to see it. It's
> really pretty simple, though. It doesn't do as much error checking as I'd
> like (like making sure the removable drive is mounted properly), but the
> archive part works perfectly, thanks to BackupPC.
>
> Tim Massey
>
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Thanks Tim,
I need to get things confirmed with management first but I think that doing the
latest
would work for what I need. I did not see the "-1" option when looking at the
archive
host option. Do you mind sharing your script?
Michael
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