On 10/5/07, Vincent Fleuranceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
This is indeed a nice workaround for one server, but for 50 servers this
defeats all usefulness of a backup product :-) I don't like having 50
cronjobs for my backups ...
Franky
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