Re: [BackupPC-users] schedule templates

2017-08-15 Thread Hanses Pelle
An add-on to templates that I would appreciate are settings for different operating systems to specify ex path to rsync, different scripts, etc. Would that be a good idea? /Pelle Alexey Safonov skrev Hi, Craig. do you think it's a good idea if you can create schedules template? wit

[BackupPC-users] schedule templates

2017-08-15 Thread Alexey Safonov
Hi, Craig. do you think it's a good idea if you can create schedules template? with different blackout periods and/or available backup time? reason is to apply to different group of servers in different timezones Alex -

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 19:04 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > Are you sure the full completely succeeded? If not it might have > been marked as a 'partial' which would be replaced by a subsequent run > with more files. 100% sure, i've seen backups marked as "full". Ok for "partial" backups, but at least 1 full (t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 18:53 GMT+01:00 Gandalf Corvotempesta > : >> I would like to add more ram, but i'm waiting for current backup to >> end from this Friday > > Anyway, 2 days ago I had 1 full backup completed. a couple of hours > aft

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 18:53 GMT+01:00 Gandalf Corvotempesta : > I would like to add more ram, but i'm waiting for current backup to > end from this Friday Anyway, 2 days ago I had 1 full backup completed. a couple of hours after, an incremental was started and completed the following day. Yesterday a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 18:47 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > What about RAM and disk speed? 2GB and standard SATA disks @7200 Tomorrow (if backup will end) i'll add more ram up to 4GB or 8GB > In any case you might check > to see if the server side has free RAM and is not swapping to disk. Actually i'm using 146

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 17:28 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : >> I haven't used v4 but it sounds like you have some issue with your >> network, rsync, or lack of resources. The main difference between a >> full and incremental should just be that the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 18:18 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : > For initial transfers, rsync is notably slower than tar or the like (I don't > remember how Bacula does it). After the initial transfers tho, it should get > faster. If you're still seeing this slowness after a couple of transfers, > there prob

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/11 05:58 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > I don't have any issue with my network, the same server, with Bacula > (i'm running Bacula and BackupPC on the same server, obviously one per > time) > will backup the same huge client in 16 hours, not 3 days. > > Same server, same disks, same networ

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 17:28 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > I haven't used v4 but it sounds like you have some issue with your > network, rsync, or lack of resources. The main difference between a > full and incremental should just be that the full will do a complete > read on the client side. The actual data

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 15:38 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : >> Also note that with backuppc it is generally better to run fulls more >> frequently, since unlike other backup programs they don't much >> additional space. And, unless your timing requir

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 15:38 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell : > Also note that with backuppc it is generally better to run fulls more > frequently, since unlike other backup programs they don't much > additional space. And, unless your timing requirements are extremely > tight it is better to let the server do the s

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 01/11 09:32 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >> 2016-01-11 3:03 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : >> > I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this with a cron job. Something >> > like this, which causes a job to go off on Sep

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/11 09:32 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-01-11 3:03 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : > > I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this with a cron job. Something > > like this, which causes a job to go off on September 7th. > > 00 01 7 9 * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-11 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-01-11 3:03 GMT+01:00 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom : > I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this with a cron job. Something > like this, which causes a job to go off on September 7th. > 00 01 7 9 * backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup > host.example.com host.example.com

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-10 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 01/09 01:58 , Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > in v4, I would like to schedule a full backup on first Saturday for > each month, for example, 6th of February, 5th of March, 2nd of April, > and so on. > All other days, an incremental should be done. I don't know v4, but in v3 we generally do this

[BackupPC-users] Schedule backups

2016-01-09 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
Hi, in v4, I would like to schedule a full backup on first Saturday for each month, for example, 6th of February, 5th of March, 2nd of April, and so on. All other days, an incremental should be done. Is this possible ? --

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 in host config not picking up blackout period

2014-02-24 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Adam Hardy wrote on 2014-02-24 10:47:38 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule in host config not picking up blackout period]: > > Les Mikesell on 2/21/2014 5:35 PM, wrote: > > > I think I'll take the advice and set the WakeupSchedule to nighttime only. > > Then

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule in host config not picking up blackout period

2014-02-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Les Mikesell on 2/21/2014 5:35 PM, wrote: > I think I'll take the advice and set the WakeupSchedule to nighttime only. > Then you'll lose the chance to catch machines that were turned off at night. > Thanks for the comments. In this case I was thinking of making a requirement for deliberate bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule in host config not picking up blackout period

2014-02-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: > The BlackoutGoodCnt is set to 7. Interesting config option! Although I'm not > sure it helps me. It is intended to make sure that PCs that are routinely turned off during the non-blackout times are backed up sometime. You can usually push thin

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule in host config not picking up blackout period

2014-02-21 Thread Adam Hardy
The BlackoutGoodCnt is set to 7. Interesting config option! Although I'm not sure it helps me. I think I'll take the advice and set the WakeupSchedule to nighttime only. Thanks for the pointer. Regards Adam Alexander Moisseev on 2/21/2014 11:30 AM, wrote: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule in host config not picking up blackout period

2014-02-21 Thread Adam Hardy
I guess I can make it hourEnd => 23.9 and there won't be a problem. I cut & paste hourEnd => 24 from somewhere. I was worried about the ambiguity just as you are - I just checked the docs now because I thought that was where I got it from but I can't see any reference to 24 so I guess there's a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule in host config not picking up blackout period

2014-02-21 Thread Alexander Moisseev
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#What-to-backup-and-when-to-do-it Look at $Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt} description. Maybe laptop lost its blackout status. -- Alexander -- Managing the Performance of Cloud-Bas

Re: [BackupPC-users] Schedule in host config not picking up blackout period

2014-02-21 Thread Till Hofmann
On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 11:11 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > I've got a laptop that I don't want backed up during the day so I have > configured it's schedule with a black-out period like this (via the web UI): > > $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [ >{ > 'hourEnd' => '24', > 'weekDays' => [ >

[BackupPC-users] Schedule in host config not picking up blackout period

2014-02-21 Thread Adam Hardy
I've got a laptop that I don't want backed up during the day so I have configured it's schedule with a black-out period like this (via the web UI): $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [ { 'hourEnd' => '24', 'weekDays' => [ '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5',

[BackupPC-users] Schedule Example Request

2011-05-19 Thread Vitello
Hi, I would ask if you can help me to make a good schedule . The principles are: - A monthly full backup - 12 month of stored full backup - A daily incremental backup - 30 daily of stored incremental bkp I'm able to set that parameter myself but what pa

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

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.

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

[BackupPC-users] schedule

2007-09-26 Thread rajnish kumar
Dear friends I have problems like this plz help me. 1. Incremental backup is not happening per hour 2. It's always saying like this "Next wakeup is 2007-09-27 14:00:00" but backup is not happing it's saying time. 3. From samba additional file is not backup in incremental back

[BackupPC-users] Schedule for backup staring time ????

2007-06-18 Thread 송 태환
Hi~ Thank you for reply my question!! I hope, BackupServer will backup my Schedule.. The present, I know "BlackoutPeriods". but, i don't know that backup is started time. i hope, i know that bacupkp is started time and i want to change staring time example - host1 backup start time : a

[BackupPC-users] Schedule for per pc backup

2007-01-29 Thread nilesh vaghela
How can I make per pc schedule for backup purpose. As I had 350 pc and want to keep maximum 4 pc to be connected concurrent. -- Nilesh Vaghela ElectroMech Redhat Channel Partner and Training Partner 74, Nalanda Complex, Satellite Rd, Ahmedabad 25, The Emperor, Fatehgunj, Baroda. www.electromech.

Re: [BackupPC-users] schedule problem since using latest beta

2007-01-15 Thread Craig Barratt
Brad writes: > On all of the servers we have installed the latest beta I have seen a > problem with the blackout periods. They appear to be ignored or > interpreted incorrectly. > > I am using the default blackout periods and schedules in all my configs > but all the incremental backups are star

[BackupPC-users] schedule problem since using latest beta

2007-01-13 Thread Brad Triem
On all of the servers we have installed the latest beta I have seen a problem with the blackout periods. They appear to be ignored or interpreted incorrectly. I am using the default blackout periods and schedules in all my configs but all the incremental backups are starting in the middle of t