Craig Barratt schrieb:
> Ralf Gross writes:
>
> > Craig Barratt schrieb:
> >
> > > Ralf Gross writes:
> >
> > Is there any side effect on setting $Conf{IncrPeriod} to a very high
> > value?
>
> My first reaction was yes, but the answer is actually no. The normal
> scheduler makes sure a full backup has to be at least $Conf{FullPeriod}
> after the last full backup, and at least $Conf{IncrPeriod} after the
> last incremental backup.
>
> But the BackupPC_serverMesg command starts a manual backup, which
> ignores all the background scheduling rules. So a large value is
> fine. That will prevent any normally scheduled backup from occurring
> (provided an incremental backup exists).
>
> In fact, this will move all control to cron, so if you disable your
> crontab entries then no backups will occur without you having to
> set $Conf{FullPeriod} to a negative value (again, provided an
> incremental backup exists). (And in fact, because of how the
> code is written, if you use a value above, say, 1 million,
> then you don't even need a incremental backup to prevent all
> regular backups.)
That seems to to be exactly what I want!
Ralf
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