On 3/30/2011 10:16 AM, Scott wrote:
> Full backups from one machine look like they are going to take > 12
> hours, so a night time full backup is not going to work - for this one
> machine I need it to happen starting Friday night so it has all
> weekend to finish (poor connectivity).    All the other machines can
> stay on the normal default schedule.   Is this possible/how? Thanks!

Two possibilities here:

1) Start the backup manually the first Friday night.  After this, the
normal backup scheduling will continue starting the backup at
approximately the same time each week.  If it shifts too much, then run
another manual backup to get it back on schedule.

2) Disable scheduled backups for this machine and run them from cron
instead.  For example:

# Machine1 backups (3:15am) -- Full on Saturday, Inc other days
15 3 * * 6 /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup machine1
machine1 backuppc 1
15 3 * * 0-5 /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup machine1
machine1 backuppc 0

-- 
Bowie

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