> How do people for now force full
> backups to occur only eg. Saturday evening?
>
Hi,
I backup my server with BackupPC every night. I perform a full backup on monday
and
incremental backups the other days.
I disable automatic backups for this specific host with the following directive
in
the host's config file (which overrides the global conf):
$Conf{FullPeriod} = -1;
This way, BackupPC will never automaticaly start a backup job.
Then, I tell BackupPC to start a full backup via a simple bash script run from
the
crontab:
---
#!/bin/bash
DAY=`date +"%u"`
if [ $DAY -eq 1 ] ; then
BACKUP_MODE=1
else
BACKUP_MODE=0
fi
sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup <server_IP>
<server_name> backuppc $BACKUP_MODE
---
I'm not a bash guru and I know that BackupPC has been designed for automatic
backup
scheduling, but this has been working perfectly for me for more than 2 years
now.
Give it a try!
-- Vincent
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