By the way the backup took 12 hours to do, meanwhile the load was over 7
all the time.... Woa!
that was for 65 gigs
Rob Morin
Dido InterNet Inc.
Montreal, Canada
Http://www.dido.ca
514-990-4444
Rob Morin wrote:
> Ahh i see ok so if i force an incremental for all machines at, say
> midnight or 11pm they will always backup at that time then? ok cool...
>
> Another quick question, rather than do the rsync thing over ssh, i want
> to use a conf file someone on the list provided me to be placed in the
> pc's name dir... IE pc/localhost, now do i name the file config.pl or
> the name of the directory/pc IE localhost.pl as i forst named it
> localhost.pl and it still used ssh rather than tar
>
> Thanks dude!
>
> Rob Morin
> Dido InterNet Inc.
> Montreal, Canada
> Http://www.dido.ca
> 514-990-4444
>
>
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 18:01 +0200, daniel berteaud wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Well, it should do incremental backups, depending on the
>>> configuration. You can verify the type of each backup in the cgi
>>> interface. You can specify in the per pc configuration file the
>>> blackout periods so that backups only occure when you want them to
>>> occure. For exemple (this is the default configuration)
>>>
>>> $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
>>> {
>>> hourBegin => 7.0,
>>> hourEnd => 19.5,
>>> weekDays => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
>>> },
>>> ];
>>>
>>> With this the backups won't occure (if the host is always connected,
>>> but, as we talk about the localhost, it will always be connected) from
>>> 7h00 to 19h30 during all the week (from monday to friday). You can
>>> define several blackout period.
>>>
>>>
>> To be considered 'always connected', some number of pings have to
>> succeed outside of the blackout period. I usually start the initial
>> backup of a new machine late in the day. Subsequent automatic runs
>> won't start until 24 hours have passed, then later after the target
>> is determined to be always available the runs won't start until the
>> blackout period. If you force an incremental just before you leave
>> work you'll shift into that cycle.
>>
>>
>>
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