Nick Smith wrote: > I have some clients that take 3 days or better to do a full backup, i > would like to do 1 full backup a month, and 1 incr backup every day, > and keep 1 week worth of incr and only 1 full backup. What happens > when there is still a full backup going on and i schedule and incr > everyday? will it wait until the full is done or will it try to do an > incr with a full backup still in progress? I would assume that the > incr would fail if it doesnt have a full backup to work off of > correct? Is there a certain way im suppose to schedule the backups to > accomplish what i want to do?
BackupPC has "smart" scheduling. It doesn't do cron-type scheduling, such as doing an incremental backup every day at a certain time. It will not start a backup for a host if one is already running. -Rob ******************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
