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Re: [BackupPC-users] backup of backuppc and schedule

2010-03-09 07:08:16
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backup of backuppc and schedule
From: Gerald Brandt <gbr AT majentis DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:08:44 -0600 (CST)
Hi,

----- "Sylvain Viart - Gmail" <sylvain.viart AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a backup server which goal is to backup other backuppc servers.
>
> So I've few hosts to backup, but they are pretty heavy, but not that
> much compared to other Thread. :-)
>
> As described many times, backup use a best effort policy, trying to
> start backup when it is allowed to do so, and when it detects than a
> host is due to be backuped.
>
> So I've found:
>
> > It's possible to schedule a backup. Just disable backups of that host, and
> > schedule the backup using cron.
> >
> > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/serverMesg_commands
> >    
>
> sounds an alternative, but, could be nice to achieve it the backuppc's way.
>
> My question in fact is about interpreting current config?
> Is there tools which displays when a host will be backuped given the
> current full configuration?
>
> For my purpose, I would like to backup hosts one per day, and a
> particular day for each host.
>
> Regards
> Sylvain.
>
> --
> Sylvain Viart.
> Gmail.
>

I have a script that runs every day at 6:30.  The script checks to see if it's a Friday, or the last day of the month.  If it is, it forces a full backup of every host.  I then let BackupPC handle all the incrementals.  I tell BackupPC to schedules it's full backups every 10 days apart.  Since I run fulls every 7 days from my script, BackupPC never schedules fulls itself.

Gerald

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