Timothy J Massey wrote at about 10:03:58 -0400 on Thursday, March 31, 2011: > "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <[email protected]> wrote on 03/30/2011 04:11:05 > PM: > > > Wouldn't a better/more robust solution be to define the blackout > > period for that machine to exclude everything except for the weekend > > -- or everything but Friday night if you just want a single Friday > > night backup. > > > > Just use a host-specific config file > > I do not believe that will work: because unless something's changed in > 3.2, you can't have separate blackout periods for incrementals and fulls. > Therefore, your incrementals won't run! :)
Ahhhh my mistake -- I missed the part about still wanting to do incrementals... > That would actually be a somewhat nice feature, but it's really just a > hack to allow people to force-schedule BackupPC. You can achieve the same > thing via cron jobs if you really really want to. Except for archives, > which aren't schedulable under BackupPC at *all* (grrr), I've found that > simply letting BackupPC manage itself works fine. It either self-adjusts > (because it just runs out of time and a backup might be skipped for a > day), or I manually adjust it by starting a full backup on a different > day. > > Timothy J. Massey That being said, I wonder whether maybe BackupPC should incorporate a cron-like forced scheduling option alongside the existing more adaptive algorithm. It seems like there are enough people that have one reason or other to have chron-like scheduling and it seems klugey and in a sense deprecated to have to disable normal BackupPC scheduling and use a separately track cron table to schedule backups. Using 'cron' will never feel ideal to me so long as you have to basically keep the scheduling information outside of the BackupPC config files and merge it in with all your other cron jobs. Since BackupPC already wakes up every hour anyway and since that would seem to be sufficient granularity for nearly all use cases, it shouldn't be hard to build it into BackupPC. Personally though I don't have any need for cron-like scheduling, but I am becoming convinced that others might benefit from such a capability. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ 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/
