All the transfer methods (smb, rsync, tar) allow you to specify which
folders you wish to back up.

The way to achieve what you want is to create two 'hosts' to be backed
up, say myserver1 and myserver2 for the server myserver. For each one
set up for just one of the two folders, with the scheduling options you
want.

Then for both, set the host alias to myserver. Job done.

We do this quite a lot to reduce the length of individual backups, or to
put in more stringent blackouts for files that mustn't be touched during
working hours (database files with no shadow copy available), and less
strict for non-critical files.

Be warned though the backup server will not think they are the same
machine, so will happily back up both folders simultaneously. To achieve
something like what you are after in terms of the schedule, you'll need
to craft the full and incremental intervals appropriately, and set them
off manually or with cron jobs.

Hope this helps.

Ed

On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:25 +0100, Cyril Lavier wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have another question on Backuppc.
> 
> Here is the situation :
> 
> We have 2 big folders (500 and 600GB) full off small files.
> 
> They are on the same server, and apparently, with backuppc, I can only 
> backup a full server.
> 
> But with these two folders, a full backup lasts for more than 20 hours, 
> and these folders are expected to grow in the near future.
> 
> So I would like to know if there's a way to schedule full backups like 
> this on a time span of 4 weeks
> 
> 1st saturday : full folder1, incremental folder2
> 1st week, monday to friday : incremental folder1 and folder2
> 2nd saturday : full folder2, incremental folder1
> 2nd week, monday to friday : incremental folder1 and folder2
> 3rd saturday : incremental folder1 and folder2
> 3rd week, monday to friday : incremental folder1 and folder2
> 4th saturday : incremental folder1 and folder2
> 4rd week, monday to friday : incremental folder1 and folder2
> 
> The important part is the first two weeks.
> 
> If anybody has some ideas about how to do something like this with 
> backuppc, this could help me a lot.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

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