[BackupPC-users] BackupPC - take a day off?
I've got BackupPC running on a somewhat low spec server, but it's running fine for the 60 or so PCs we've got in use. In fact, it's saved the day on numerous occasions. The system specs are just good enough to fully support all the usual BackupPC functions. Issue: I want to use ClamAV to scan for viruses. Problem: The server/hdds just aren't fast enough to complete the scan before the next wave of backups starts, even if I block off several hours (10 pm - 7 am) to do the virus scan. BackupPC's pooling and compression, which works fine, taxes the server too much with the virus scan running and that kicks in around midnight or so regardless. I had started a virus scan overnight and it's still trying to run this morning. Pooling and compression is also still trying to run as well, whereas pooling/compression would usually be done by 1 a.m. or so without the virus scan running. Question: Is there a way to tell BackupPC to take the day off? That way I could run ClamAV without BackupPC doing backups, pooling, or compression, at the same time and complete the virus scan without interfering with the normal BackupPC functions. I see where you can easily tell it what hours of the day to wake up, but is there an option where you can tell BackupPC what day(s) of the week to wake up on? I'd like to take Sunday, for example, for BackupPC to cease its usual functions (including pooling/compression) while I run a scan via crontab/script. Otherwise standard, out of the box configuration for BackupPC - nothing fancy going on, and about 60 client PCs. Any ideas? +-- |This was sent by bp...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] BackupPC - take a day off?
And I may have just answered my own question; tell it to take the morning off, or start the virus scan after pooling and compression, which usually ends by 1 or 1:10 a.m. But, if anyone knows how to have BackupPC systems take Sunday as a rest day while the scanner scans, that would be good. +-- |This was sent by bp...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] BackupPC - take a day off?
Maybe it's possible to create a blackout period for that day? Not sure if one should specify saturday or sunday as weekdays. $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [ { hourBegin => 1.0, hourEnd => 23.5, weekDays => [0], }, ]; Kind regards Pasi Thanks! I think this is it. I completely overlooked this for all the other settings. Sounds promising. +-- |This was sent by bp...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - take a day off?
> On 18 May 2016, at 14:28, bpb21 wrote: > > And I may have just answered my own question; tell it to take the morning > off, or start the virus scan after pooling and compression, which usually > ends by 1 or 1:10 a.m. > > But, if anyone knows how to have BackupPC systems take Sunday as a rest day > while the scanner scans, that would be good. Maybe it's possible to create a blackout period for that day? Not sure if one should specify saturday or sunday as weekdays. $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [ { hourBegin => 1.0, hourEnd => 23.5, weekDays => [0], }, ]; Kind regards Pasi -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC - take a day off?
Hi, bpb21 wrote on 2016-05-18 10:22:22 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC - take a day off?]: > [someone else wrote:] > > Maybe it's possible to create a blackout period for that day? Not sure if > > one should specify saturday or sunday as weekdays. > > [...] > > Thanks! I think this is it. I completely overlooked this for all the > other settings. Sounds promising. well, yes, that is the solution that comes to mind. I'm not sure the problem you are solving is the important one, though. What exactly are you trying to scan for viruses, your backups or the rest of the system? Assuming you are scanning the backups: Does your anti-virus software handle compression (i.e. the non-standard format used by BackupPC)? If not, then your anti-virus software will run just fine, consume lots of CPU time and keep your hard disks busy, but it will be pretty much guaranteed to never find anything (which might be what you are actually hoping for, but it would also be very much meaningless). If it does work, remember that you want to scan only the pool, not the pc/ directory structure. Since BackupPC conveniently only stores the data once, you only need to scan it once. Assuming you are *not* scanning the backups: Be sure to exclude the backups from the AV scan - it would take forever and probably be quite pointless. As a side note, the nightly job you seem to be referring to - BackupPC_nightly - is not "pooling and compression", it's more like "housekeeping and statistics". Compression is done during backups. Pooling is done during backups for existing files (i.e. where an identical file is known to BackupPC) and during BackupPC_link for new files. Hope that helps. Regards, Holger -- What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e ___ 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/