Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

2011-04-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Holger Parplies wrote at about 19:48:52 +0200 on Thursday, April 14, 2011: > And Jeffrey, if you could give me a pointer to the previous thread, I'll add > anything from there, or you could, of course, also do that yourself ;-). Sure I posted the reference on my last reply to Jake... --

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

2011-04-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jake Wilson wrote at about 10:04:42 -0600 on Thursday, April 14, 2011: > I did search Google and researched the topic in the wiki and documentation > and the only thing I could find remotely related was the cron scheduling > page in the wiki. If a question is asked (and answered) a lot I guess

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

2011-04-14 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Jake Wilson wrote on 2011-04-14 10:04:42 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?]: > I did search Google and researched the topic in the wiki and documentation > and the only thing I could find remotely related was the cron scheduling > page in the wik

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

2011-04-14 Thread Gerald Brandt
23:51 AM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends? On 4/14/2011 12:04 PM, Jake Wilson wrote: > I did search Google and researched the topic in the wiki and > documentation and the only thing I could find remotely related was the > cron scheduling page in the wiki.

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

2011-04-14 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/14/2011 12:04 PM, Jake Wilson wrote: > I did search Google and researched the topic in the wiki and > documentation and the only thing I could find remotely related was the > cron scheduling page in the wiki. If a question is asked (and > answered) a lot I guess I would expect to see the best

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

2011-04-14 Thread Jake Wilson
I did search Google and researched the topic in the wiki and documentation and the only thing I could find remotely related was the cron scheduling page in the wiki. If a question is asked (and answered) a lot I guess I would expect to see the best solutions at least listed on the wiki. But it's

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

2011-04-13 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Jake Wilson wrote at about 11:54:13 -0600 on Wednesday, April 13, 2011: > In order to minimize cpu load on our servers at the office, I'd like to make > sure that the full backups only occur on the weekends. Is there a > straightforward way to accomplish this in the interface or do I need to go

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

2011-04-13 Thread Jake Wilson
I think that I will go with the option to keep the backup disabled until Friday at 5pm and then enable it, which should allow the first full backup to occur friday night. Thanks for the insight. Jake Wilson On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 4/13/2011 1:54 PM, Jake Wil

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

2011-04-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/13/2011 1:54 PM, Jake Wilson wrote: > > I've also noticed that when I add a new host to the config, lets say > on a Wednesday afternoon, the full backups for that server always seem > to occur on Wednesday nights. It would be nice to set up the config > so that the full backups happen on Frid

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

2011-04-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/13/2011 12:54 PM, Jake Wilson wrote: > In order to minimize cpu load on our servers at the office, I'd like to > make sure that the full backups only occur on the weekends. Is there a > straightforward way to accomplish this in the interface or do I need to > go the cron job route? > > http:/

[BackupPC-users] How to force full backups on weekends?

2011-04-13 Thread Jake Wilson
In order to minimize cpu load on our servers at the office, I'd like to make sure that the full backups only occur on the weekends. Is there a straightforward way to accomplish this in the interface or do I need to go the cron job route? http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?ti