Re: [BackupPC-users] Why is the backup not being queued?

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck AT madduck DOT net> [2011.02.02.1607 
+0100]:
> One of the hosts' last full backup is now 8.2 days old, while it's
> incremental backup is 0.9 days old.
> 
> BackupPC just woke up, but it did not schedule the host, 

A colleague suggests this is because backuppc only schedules a host
once a day (or maybe once per IncrPeriod), because otherwise you
might have a situation where an incremental backup runs and is
immediately followed by a full backup.

Therefore, the logic could be that backuppc wakes up and only acts
on the hosts that have IncrAge expired. Then it looks at FullAge and
runs a full backup only if FullAge is expired.

After hearing this, looking back into the docs was more obvious:

  
https://backup.madduck.net/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#item__conf_fullperiod_

  Minimum period in days between full backups. A full dump will only
  be done if at least this much time has elapsed since the last full
  dump, and at least $Conf{IncrPeriod} days has elapsed since the
  last successful dump.

So problem solved. Thanks Hanspeter.

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