[BackupPC-users] Scheduling Options, Scripts, and starting over

2012-02-23 Thread Brad Morgan
I'm new to BackupPC. I've been through most of the documentation and about 9 months of list archives. The question of restricting full backups to the weekends has come up a few times and I'm just wondering why the current blackouts can't be enhanced to provide two blackout schedules, one for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling Options, Scripts, and starting over

2012-02-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Brad Morgan b-mor...@concentric.net wrote: The question of restricting full backups to the weekends has come up a few times and I'm just wondering why the current blackouts can't be enhanced to provide two blackout schedules, one for incrementals and one for

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling Options, Scripts, and starting over

2012-02-23 Thread Brad Morgan
As for erasing the pool, that may depend on how you installed or which packaged version you have, but I think the current ones that split configs to /etc/* and the archive to /var/lib/* locations will handle a new empty archive automatically. Can you define empty? For example, is that no

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling Options, Scripts, and starting over

2012-02-23 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Brad Morgan b-mor...@concentric.netwrote: As for erasing the pool, that may depend on how you installed or which packaged version you have, but I think the current ones that split configs to /etc/* and the archive to /var/lib/* locations will handle a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling Options, Scripts, and starting over

2012-02-23 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Brad Morgan wrote at about 16:31:09 -0700 on Thursday, February 23, 2012: I've also seen a couple of useful scripts (BackupPC_copyPcPool.pl, BackupPc_deleteFile.pl) and a jLib.pm but I haven't seen any documentation about how and where to install these files. Could someone point me in the