Hi,
Bowie Bailey wrote on 2016-05-31 11:34:43 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] error
crontab]:
> On 5/31/2016 9:53 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > Put your entries in /etc/crontab. They will be easier to find there.
> >
> > [...]
>
> Alternately, you can use the per-user crontab correctly. Use 'crontab
> -e backuppc' to create/edit the crontab for backuppc and then enter in
> your command without the username.
>
> 20 20 * * * /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup
> example-2.example.com example-2.example.com backuppc 1
all of that said, you need to get the BackupPC_serverMesg command right, as
indicated here, which you did not in your original post. The syntax for
requesting a backup is
BackupPC_serverMesg backup <hostIP> <host> <user> <backupType>
where <host> *needs to* match a host you defined in BackupPC (i.e. if you
named your host "foo", you can't use "foo.domain.com", "cname-for-foo", or
"1.2.3.4" here) and <hostIP> should probably be identical to <host> unless
you know what you are doing (hint: you don't; using an IP or something else
that resolves to the same IP might occasionally work, but a quick glance at
the code suggests that this may break BackupPC internal synchronisation).
<user> is informational only, if I remember correctly, and backupType is one
of "auto", -1, "doIncr", 0, "doFull", 1 with the text corresponding to the
following number.
If you want to request three backups, then that's three individual
BackupPC_serverMesg commands.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Holger
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