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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/