Jose Torres wrote at about 12:27:07 -0400 on Thursday, September 3, 2009: > I want to schedule one Full backup every Sunday at 21:15 and five > Incremental backups at 00:30 on every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, > and Saturday. > > > > This is something really, really easy to do using NTbackup and Task > Scheduler on Windows computers, but I have a Zimbra/Ubuntu server and can't > use NTbackup.
Well, BackupPC has a different but arguably more sophisticated and robust version of backup scheduling. If all you want to do is to run a fixed backup job at the exact same time every week, then you don't need to use the sophisticated default scheduler. Just turn off all job scheduling in config.pl and run simple cron jobs calling: BackupPC_dump [-i] [-f] <client> where -i = incremental -f = full That being said, since this question seems to come up a lot, maybe it should be added to the FAQ if it isn't there already. Also, given that some people seem to prefer such absolutely deterministic scheduling, maybe we should consider adding such an option internally to BackupPC itself. Whereby on a generic or host-by-host basis, one could add specifically timed backup jobs to either config.pl or the corresponding host file, respectively. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/