Hi Les,
your second choise is not possible to do, because BackupPc policy for
full backup and after incremental backup have different start time and
finish time.
So I think DumpPostUserCmd with /etc/sudoers is the ONLY one solution!
Thanks, Alessandro
> Yes its possible.
>
> two ways.
>
> 1. DumpPostUserCmd (with a suitable script or command, but you'll likely
> need sudo to help out)
>
> 2. run a cron job to shutdown backuppc at a specified time.
> if you know how long a backup should take then you can schedule
> accordingly. also you can use DumpPostUserCmd to say touch a file when its
> finished. In turn you have a separate script which polls for that file, if
> it finds it it issues the shutdwon command and removes the file.
>
> But then how do you know when to start it back up?
>
> WakeUp schedules and blackout periods should enable you to only do backups
> at specified times and always have backuppc running. So i guess the real
> question should be what do you want to achieve?
>
> As another example here's what i do in some cases.....
>
> backuppc is on a removable drive that gets rotated weekly.
> i modified the init script to mount the drive before starting backuppc and
> unmount after stopping backuppc.
> i also stopped any automounting from occurring.
> a cronjob runs at 7am to stop backuppc and unmount the drive.
> a cronjob runs at 7pm to mount the drive and start backuppc
> Why? because i only want backups to occur after hours. I know they will
> only take at most a few hours. And it gives the ordinary end user an easy
> way to remove the drives during the day when they want to swap them over
> for rotation. they simply power off the drive, unplug it and put the new
> one in and switch it on. At 7pm backuppc starts, mounting the new drive
> and normally kicks off a backup at 8pm, or the next WakeUp schedule.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Regards,
>
> Les
>
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