Tomasz Chmielewski writes: > Les Stott wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a client with 50 or so pcs, all doing rsync backups throughout > > the day to a backuppc server. Works Great. > > > > We also have a linux box running a Cyrus Imap Store and we were running > > rsync backups too, just getting the cyrus directories. This was working > > great until a month or so ago when the rsync's started failed with > > "Child Exited Prematurely". > > (...) > > > 2. Alternatively is there a way to schedule a backup of this host via > > cron? and just disable regular backups? > > Put it into config.pl for the host: > > $Conf{FullPeriod} = -1; > > And then you can start cronjobs with: > > su -l backuppc -c "/srv/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f old-backups" > &>/dev/null
You shouldn't use this form to start backups, except for debugging. That's because BackupPC itself isn't aware that BackupPC_dump is running unless it starts it itself. It could be running BackupPC_nightly. Also, the linking step doesn't happen if you run BackupPC_dump nightly. You should use cron to run BackupPC_serverMesg to start the backup. See the list archive for the syntax. Craig ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/