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
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