Sorry about the poor documentation for BackupPC_serverMesg, but in most
cases you should use the same argument for host and hostIP. So try this
instead:
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup humppa humppa backuppc 1
Craig
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Tapio Lehtonen
> <tapio.lehto...@satatuuli.fi> wrote:
> > Running backuppc 3.3.0-2+deb8u1 on Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 Jessie.
> >
> > Used command
> > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup 192.168.42.2 humppa
> > backuppc 1
> > to force full backup.
> >
> > The request appears in the log but seems to have no effect.
> >
> > I tried to force the full backup to run friday night, but seems the
> > serverMesg backup does not have any effect. I googled for old mailing
> list
> > entries, and found about serverMesg and the syntax it uses. I also read
> this
> > is the way backups should be started from command line, and not using
> > BackupPC_dump.
> >
> > The reason I am trying to do this from cron is to correct the tendency of
> > the backup start times to creep forward. Eventually the full backups
> start
> > so late in the monday morning they are still running during working
> hours. I
> > remember I read about this in this mailing list sometime previously, but
> did
> > not find that list entry now that I tried to do it myself.
>
> Not sure about the command line problem, but I used to occasionally
> force full runs to start on a host or two as I was leaving work on
> Fridays using the web interface so they would have the weekend to
> complete if necessary - and to correct any time-skew that might have
> happened. This was slightly before the blackout time would end so
> there would not be a problem with concurrent scheduled runs.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>
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