One of main main issues is that my business has a month end process that
happens on the last business day of the month, not the last calendar day.
makes it hard to get that full backup without manually firing it off. I
have a fairly convoluted cron script that i run daily that checks to see if
it is the last non-weekend day and if so run a full backup and that works
'ok'. by that i mean it works but it is completely hidden from backuppc
which makes it more maintainance than id like.
On Feb 1, 2008 5:32 PM, Scott Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dan wrote:
> > yes, its that incrementals dont last, either that or i have to keep an
> > insane number of them.
> > i dont want my month end backups being deleted and having only
> > backups for random days throughout the year
> >
> > On Feb 1, 2008 3:40 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> >
> > Timothy J. Massey wrote:
> >
> > > > I would like to be able to convert a backup from an
> > incremental to a
> > > > full. Im not sure if just changing the entry in the backups
> file
> > > > from inc to full will work or not but i would like to suggest a
> > > > method of doing this from the CGI.
> > > >
> > > > anyone know if it will work just changing the type in the
> > backups file?
> > >
> > > What possible legitimate purpose are you trying to serve here?
> >
> > I think he mentioned the real objective in an earlier email as being
> > able to save end-of-month backup runs for a much longer time than
> any
> > others.
> >
> > --
> > Les Mikesell
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
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> If I understand correctly I have the same concerns. Even though I have
> set up some configurations to save a trailing full backup every four
> weeks or so for about a year, I won't get the exact day for end of month
> backups - they could end up happening a couple of days before the month
> is over or perhaps even at the beginning of the next month depending on
> the values used. For some this may not be an ideal setup. I don't
> think this is possible through backuppc. The only way I can think of
> how this would work would be to setup cron jobs to schedule each hosts
> backups to one's liking which would be a little bit more complicated
> than setting up the host configuration files when it comes to choosing a
> transport, tweaking the flags and deciding on what to include or
> exclude...
>
> -Scott
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