I think that I will go with the option to keep the backup disabled until
Friday at 5pm and then enable it, which should allow the first full backup
to occur friday night. Thanks for the insight.
Jake Wilson
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Bowie Bailey <bowie_bai...@buc.com> wrote:
> On 4/13/2011 1:54 PM, Jake Wilson wrote:
> >
> > I've also noticed that when I add a new host to the config, lets say
> > on a Wednesday afternoon, the full backups for that server always seem
> > to occur on Wednesday nights. It would be nice to set up the config
> > so that the full backups happen on Friday or Saturday nights, but does
> > that mean that I need to manually add those servers into the config on
> > Friday or Saturday afternoon? Or can I just schedule it somehow?
> >
>
> Incremental backups have to rely on a prior full backup as a base. The
> first backup of a server must be a full backup. Since you have no
> previous backups, BackupPC will kick off a backup during the next
> available time-slot. And, as the first backup of a new server, it will
> be a full backup. If you have it configured for weekly full backups,
> the full backup will then happen at approximately that same time each week.
>
> You can reset the schedule by manually starting a full backup when you
> want it to happen. Or just don't add the server until you are ready for
> it to run a full backup.
>
> --
> Bowie
>
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