Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule full backup into weekends

2015-03-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Antonio Sanguigni wrote: > Hi everybody, > > is it possible (and advisable) to have just one full backup and all > the rest as incr backup ? My problem is that the data volume is big > and backup over Internet is not easy. No, you need periodic fulls. If you are u

[BackupPC-users] Schedule full backup into weekends

2015-03-06 Thread Antonio Sanguigni
Hi everybody, is it possible (and advisable) to have just one full backup and all the rest as incr backup ? My problem is that the data volume is big and backup over Internet is not easy. Further, I would like to plan eventually full backup just on weekend and incremental during the rest of week

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-04-07 Thread Hervé Richard
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: Hervé Richard wrote: You can, but normally one would start by itself before then if you have a normal schedule set up. If you want to defer runs, you can go to the host's screen in the web interface and use the 'stop backup' link even

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-04-07 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Hervé Richard wrote: >> You can, but normally one would start by itself before then if you >> have a normal schedule set up. If you want to defer runs, you can >> go to the host's screen in the web interface and use the 'stop >> backup' link even if one isn't currently running. > Ok, I saw

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-04-07 Thread Hervé Richard
Les Mikesell wrote: Hervé Richard wrote: this can be simply stated as 00 02 01 * * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup host.domain.tld host.domain.tld backuppc 1 If "tomorrow" is the second, then "today" must be the first, and we can specify this directly in the cr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-04-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Hervé Richard wrote: >> >> this can be simply stated as >> >> 00 02 01 * * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg >> backup >> host.domain.tld host.domain.tld backuppc 1 >> >> If "tomorrow" is the second, then "today" must be the first, and we >> can specify this directly in the cr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-04-07 Thread Hervé Richard
Ambrose Li wrote: On 03/03/2008, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: monthly fulls: 00 02 * * * backuppc if [ `/usr/local/bin/date +%d -d tomorrow` = 02 ] ; then /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup host.domain.tld host.domain.tld backuppc 1 this will say 'if tomor

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-04-07 Thread Hervé Richard
Ambrose Li wrote: On 03/03/2008, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: monthly fulls: 00 02 * * * backuppc if [ `/usr/local/bin/date +%d -d tomorrow` = 02 ] ; then /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup host.domain.tld host.domain.tld backuppc 1 this will say 'if tomor

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-16 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Holm Kapschitzki wrote: > Les Mikesell schrieb: > >> If you really have to constrain the backup to an exact time, you can >> turn off the scheduled runs and use a cron job to send a server >> message. >> That has been mentioned on the mail list before, but maybe someone >> who >> is doing it c

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-16 Thread Holm Kapschitzki
Les Mikesell schrieb: > If you really have to constrain the backup to an exact time, you can > turn off the scheduled runs and use a cron job to send a server message. > That has been mentioned on the mail list before, but maybe someone who > is doing it could put an example on the wiki. what

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:30 PM +0100 "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Select the host from the drop-down menu and click either 'Start > incremental backup' or 'Start full backup', depending on what you want. Thanks! As so often happens, I tripped across it just after

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-04 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Friday, February 29, 2008 3:03 PM -0600 Les Mikesell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You can also give things a hint about timing by manually starting a >> backup from the web interface at the right time of day and letting >> the >> approximately 24 hour interval t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, February 29, 2008 3:03 PM -0600 Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can also give things a hint about timing by manually starting a > backup from the web interface at the right time of day and letting the > approximately 24 hour interval take it from there. Where in the we

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-03 Thread Ambrose Li
On 03/03/2008, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > monthly fulls: > > 00 02 * * * backuppc if [ `/usr/local/bin/date +%d -d tomorrow` = 02 ] ; > then /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup > host.domain.tld host.domain.tld backuppc 1 > > > > this will say 'if tomorrow is the second, run th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-03 Thread dan
you can put this in crontab: daily incrementals: > 00 02 * * * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup > host.domain.tld host.domain.tld backuppc 0 > monthly fulls: > 59 11 * * * backuppc if [ `/usr/local/bin/date +%d -d tomorrow` = 01 ] ; > then /usr/share/backuppc/bin/Back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-03 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 02/29 05:06 , deblike wrote: > I'm kinda stuck on this too, I need to run backups on a fixed schedule, > let's say 02:00 AM every day, but I'm failing to see how to achieve > this. > Any clue? put this in /etc/crontab: 00 02 * * * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup ho

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-03-03 Thread deblike
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:18:06 +0100 Hervé Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and is executed when the backup disk is on line normal but the next > full doesn't begin next Monday but after the number of days > configured in config.pl. I'm kinda stuck on this too, I need to run backups on a fixed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-02-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Horacio Arroyo wrote: > > >> and is executed when the backup disk is on line normal but the next >> full doesn't begin next Monday but after the number of days >> configured in config.pl. >> May be my config file is not pretty optimized :-/ >> How can I make a workaround? > > I'm kinda stuck

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-02-29 Thread Horacio Arroyo
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:18:06 +0100 Hervé Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and is executed when the backup disk is on line normal but the next > full doesn't begin next Monday but after the number of days > configured in config.pl. > May be my config file is not pretty optimized :-/ > How c

[BackupPC-users] Schedule Full backup

2008-02-26 Thread Hervé Richard
Hello all, I need to do a full backup every Monday at 3AM. I saw in the log that when the full backup has been interrupted, cause the backup disk is not on line, that the full (for instance) is pending and is executed when the backup disk is on line normal but the next full doesn't begin next