Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with the schedule config
Also digging deep ... (wish we still had the old wiki!) Run/schedule a backup on a single host. BackupPC_serverMesg backup HOSTIP HOST USER 0/1 schedule backup for a host now. 0/1 0 incremental backup, 1 full backup. E.G. /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup host.example.tld host.example.tld backuppc 1 The syntax to get status for a single host is: BackupPC_serverMesg 'status host(mail.test.com)' Run (schedule really) nightly cleanup BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_nightly run Dump some info. Pipe to perltidy as it is a nested data structure. Not sure what it's actually dumping or how to use it or glean info from it. BackupPC_serverMesg status info Dump currently running (and maybe scheduled??) jobs. Looks like an associative array with the keys set to the hostname or other service jobs like " trashClean". Again useful to pipe through perltidy. BackupPC_serverMesg status jobs List status of each host. State field will tell you if the host is idle, backup is in progress... BackupPC_serverMesg status hosts Start scheduling backups for all hosts BackupPC_serverMesg backup all Stop/delay backups BackupPC_serverMesg stop HOST REQ_USER BACKOFF HOST is the host to cancel, REQ_USER is the requesting user (just for log purposes) and BACKOFF is the backoff time in hours. https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/19201808/ Also current docs: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/blob/c4b4c643c9c1a9f5400e70135cbd9ba46ca71ede/doc-src/BackupPC.pod#step-7-talking-to-backuppc -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot___ 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] Help with the schedule config
On 05/25/17 10:02, Alexey Safonov wrote: > that's nice > > is there any list of all commands available in BPC ? I tried to find some reference, but found only this old post in this mailing list, which I probably used when I was solving the same problem: https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/12063875/ If you find something more detailed, please post it here. -- Best Regard Vladislav Kurz -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ 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] Help with the schedule config
that's nice is there any list of all commands available in BPC ? Alex On 25 May 2017 at 15:55, Vladislav Kurz wrote: > On 05/24/17 14:41, Yong Zhang wrote: >> Hi, all >> >> >> >> I'm new to BackupPC, I installed v4.0 these days, but hard to understand >> schedule settings, I have some queries here: >> >> >> >> 1) I want servers to be backed up daily, but full backup only runs on >> Saturday, how? > > Hello, > > I use this line in crontab to enforce full backup on weekends: > > 55 19 * * 5 backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup > HOSTIP HOST USER 1 > > I usually put the time to run at 5 minutes before the end of blackout > period to ensure that it will start earlier than normal backup run. > Also I put FQDN for both HOST and HOSTIP. Number 1 at the end means full > backup (0 would be incremental). > > -- > Best Regards > Vladislav Kurz > > -- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > ___ > 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/ -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ 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] Help with the schedule config
On 05/24/17 14:41, Yong Zhang wrote: > Hi, all > > > > I'm new to BackupPC, I installed v4.0 these days, but hard to understand > schedule settings, I have some queries here: > > > > 1) I want servers to be backed up daily, but full backup only runs on > Saturday, how? Hello, I use this line in crontab to enforce full backup on weekends: 55 19 * * 5 backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup HOSTIP HOST USER 1 I usually put the time to run at 5 minutes before the end of blackout period to ensure that it will start earlier than normal backup run. Also I put FQDN for both HOST and HOSTIP. Number 1 at the end means full backup (0 would be incremental). -- Best Regards Vladislav Kurz -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ 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] Help with the schedule config
I'll take a stab at it. On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 5:41 AM, Yong Zhang wrote: > 1) I want servers to be backed up daily, but full backup only runs on > Saturday, how? > AFAIK, there isn't an easy way to determine when specific backups (full/incr) run. My understanding is that BackupPC runs within the context of the blackout periods and client visibility, and executes full/incr depending upon the expiration counts of the existing backups. That being said, you could manually start a full backup on a Saturday and hope for the best within a 7-day cycle. Or you can set a cron job, but then you're missing out on the ability to automatically stagger backups. It just occurred to me, you could leverage a DumpPreUserCmd (combined with UserCmdCheckStatus) to verify the day (Saturday), dump type (Full), and exit status (Yes, it is) on whether or not to proceed. I think that a non-zero status here would put the client back into the queue, and it would try the same dump again upon the next wake. There are probably other caveats -- like whether a client sitting in the queue for a long time might have some existing backups expired and purged in the interim, but it's something to consider. > 2) I want servers to have incremental backup daily for 6 days then 1 full > backup, and keep all these backups (inc/full) for one month, but after one > month, I only need to keep weekly full backups for 180 days (that is about > 24 full backups total), and after 180 days, I just want to keep full > backups at monthly basis e.g. keep one full backup one month and 12 months > total. Is this possible and how to set the values in config? > If I'm reading the docs right: * FullPeriod = 7 days * FullPeriod * 1 = 24 backups * FullPeriod * 2 = 0 backups * FullPeriod * 4 = 12 backups So KeepFullCnt = [24,0,12], with IncKeepCnt=24. This is a little more Lunar and less Gregorian, but that's what we get for mixing weeks and months. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot___ 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/
