Re: [BackupPC-users] How exactly to archive backup?

2010-12-01 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 12/01 02:40 , Timothy Murphy wrote: > 1. I'm not sure, in the case of a disaster on my server, > how exactly I could retrieve the archive > to say a different hard disk on the server, > or even a different machine. The archives that BackupPC makes (at least with the script below) are tar archiv

[BackupPC-users] How exactly to archive backup?

2010-12-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running BackupPC on a CentOS-5.5 server, and it works extremely well. I'm backing up nightly onto a hard disk in my server; but now I'd like to add a weekly or monthly backup to an external hard disk. I've looked at the BackupPC archive documentation, but do not understand it completely. 1.

Re: [BackupPC-users] R: Schedule settings

2010-12-01 Thread Koen Vermeer
So, for the full backups: - Set FullPeriod to 29.97 (30 minus a bit), which will give you a full backup every 30 days. - Set FullKeepCnt to 12, which will keep 12 full backups around. For the incrementals: - Set IncrPeriod to 0.97 (1 minus a bit), which will give you an incremental backup every da

[BackupPC-users] R: Schedule settings

2010-12-01 Thread Vitello
You're right, I'm explaining well: 1) A full backup every month for every pc 2) An incremental backup every day for every pc (if it's possible, I would like delete the incremental at the end of the month) 3) I would like to store 12 month at least of full backup then the backup older than 12 mon

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule settings

2010-12-01 Thread Koen Vermeer
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 12:07 +0100, Vitello wrote: > I’m writing because I need help to set up backup schedule. > I have 8 pc and I would made a full backup every month (for example at > first of every month) and an incremental backup in days remaining. > I’ve planned to store one-year backup on har

[BackupPC-users] R: Schedule settings

2010-12-01 Thread Vitello
Ok, I read user manual too…I’m using backuppc since 2 year… What I’m looking for is a schedule settings to optimize my needs. Now I take too disk space and I’m looking for a setting to decrease that. I’m not sure to understand very well the exponential function over incremental and full ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule settings

2010-12-01 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Vitello wrote: > Hi, > > I’m writing because I need help to set up backup schedule. > > I have 8 pc and I would made a full backup every month (for example at > first of every month) and an incremental backup in days remaining. > > I’ve planned to store one-ye

[BackupPC-users] Schedule settings

2010-12-01 Thread Vitello
Hi, I'm writing because I need help to set up backup schedule. I have 8 pc and I would made a full backup every month (for example at first of every month) and an incremental backup in days remaining. I've planned to store one-year backup on hard-disk and replace it with a new one every year.