On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Prem <squirr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I was reading the online guides to set up the scheduling for the backup > clients, however I just find it hard to implement a schedule as per my > preference.
The server is designed to handle a larger number of backups by controlling the scheduling internally. > I would like to achieve the following: > - Daily incremental from Monday to Thurs at 8pm > - Weekly full backup on Friday at 8pm > - Monthly full backup on the last day of the month at 8pm. It works best to think in terms of when _not_ to do backups and set your blackout periods for that, letting backuppc do its work anytime outside of those times. However, if you do the initial setup or force a full at approximately the time you want backups to happen, the 'approximately daily' scheduling will stay fairly close to that timing as long as the machines are running. > - Retention of the backup for 1 year and then prune the data as it expires. There isn't a real concept of monthy and yearly, but with the pooling scheme there is not much overhead if you need to keep some extra copies due to approximations with days/weeks. http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Keep_yearly_backups And if you really need fine-grained control, you can use cron: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/?title=Schedule_Backups_With_Cron -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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/
