Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup at different times

2017-09-01 Thread Carl Soderstrom
> From: Orazio Di nino > > Hello everyone, > I would like to back up two hosts at different times. > es. host1 at 10:00 PM and host2 at 4:00 PM. > How do I configure this? The easiest way is to set a cron job like the one below. The '0' at the end means to do an incremental backup, a '1' would m

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling advice

2017-09-01 Thread Ray Frush
Gandalf- Sounds like you need a bigger backup server. BackupPC keeps the tranfer logs compressed, even the most recent one. Typical log sizes for my largest host (768GB, 6.7 Million files) which also has a significant amount of churn. You can see that the Full, (backup 65) even compressed, the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling advice

2017-09-01 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 11:50:25 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > Large, changing files can be a problem, but log files tend to be > highly compressible. Yup, I confirm, a large VM file (50G) on one laptop extends the backups time from a few hours to 2 days when it has been used :/ JY -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling advice

2017-09-01 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-09-01 18:50 GMT+02:00 Les Mikesell : > Large, changing files can be a problem, but log files tend to be > highly compressible. rotated log files are already compressed by the client. -- Check out the vibrant tech com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling advice

2017-09-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2017-09-01 18:29 GMT+02:00 Les Mikesell : >> Unless you have a huge turnover in data, keeping more backups will not >> take a lot more space on the server. There is only one copy kept of >> each unique file, no matter how many backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling advice

2017-09-01 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-09-01 18:29 GMT+02:00 Les Mikesell : > Unless you have a huge turnover in data, keeping more backups will not > take a lot more space on the server. There is only one copy kept of > each unique file, no matter how many backups you keep. And, since it > is compressed it will take less space t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling advice

2017-09-01 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2017-09-01 17:10 GMT+02:00 Ray Frush : >> BackupPC's retention rules are not necessarily the easiest to understand. >> Your proposed schedule would result in having only 7 days of backups, which >> is probably not what you want. > > Y

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling advice

2017-09-01 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-09-01 17:10 GMT+02:00 Ray Frush : > BackupPC's retention rules are not necessarily the easiest to understand. > Your proposed schedule would result in having only 7 days of backups, which > is probably not what you want. Yes, only 7 days of backups is what I want. I don't have enough space on

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup at different times

2017-09-01 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2017-09-01 03:10, Orazio Di nino wrote: Hello everyone, I would like to back up two hosts at different times. es. host1 at 10:00 PM and host2 at 4:00 PM. How do I configure this? thank you Orazio Since BackupPC wasn't designed with the "I want to set the exact time that each backup starts

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling advice

2017-09-01 Thread Ray Frush
Longish answer below... On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta < gandalf.corvotempe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-08-31 16:33 GMT+02:00 Ray Frush : > > The values you'll want to check: > > $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 26; # This is the number of total 'unfilled' > > backups kept. > > >

[BackupPC-users] Backup at different times

2017-09-01 Thread Orazio Di nino
Hello everyone, I would like to back up two hosts at different times. es. host1 at 10:00 PM and host2 at 4:00 PM. How do I configure this? thank you Orazio - -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling advice

2017-09-01 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-08-31 16:33 GMT+02:00 Ray Frush : > The values you'll want to check: > $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 26; # This is the number of total 'unfilled' > backups kept. > > $Conf{FillCycle} = 7;# This is how often a filled backup is kept (1 per > week) which strongly influences the next setting > > $