On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Tapio Lehtonen <tapio.lehto...@satatuuli.fi> wrote: > Running backuppc 3.3.0-2+deb8u1 on Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 Jessie. > > Used command > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup 192.168.42.2 humppa > backuppc 1 > to force full backup. > > The request appears in the log but seems to have no effect. > > I tried to force the full backup to run friday night, but seems the > serverMesg backup does not have any effect. I googled for old mailing list > entries, and found about serverMesg and the syntax it uses. I also read this > is the way backups should be started from command line, and not using > BackupPC_dump. > > The reason I am trying to do this from cron is to correct the tendency of > the backup start times to creep forward. Eventually the full backups start > so late in the monday morning they are still running during working hours. I > remember I read about this in this mailing list sometime previously, but did > not find that list entry now that I tried to do it myself.
Not sure about the command line problem, but I used to occasionally force full runs to start on a host or two as I was leaving work on Fridays using the web interface so they would have the weekend to complete if necessary - and to correct any time-skew that might have happened. This was slightly before the blackout time would end so there would not be a problem with concurrent scheduled runs. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/