Thks Craig.
Can I just set the incrPeriod to 0 ?
also why incr didn't hapen after 6am?
Very strange.
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:24:30
To:"Travis Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] hourly wakeup
"Travis Wu" writes:
> I want to have backuppc run hourly so I last night I configured
> $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [1..23];
> $Conf{IncrPeriod} = 0.04;
>
> since 1/24=0.042. However, the backup summary shows:
>
> 4 incr no 2/20 23:00
> 5 incr no 2/21 01:03
> 6 incr no 2/21 03:00
> 7 incr no 2/21 04:00
> 8 incr no 2/21 05:00
> 9 incr no 2/21 06:00
>
> and now it's 6pm.
>
> So it worked... for a little while but what happened from 6am to 6pm?
> I dont know if it'll run later but I'll post the result back here
> tomorrow.
Check the Blackout config settings.
You'll probably want to set $Conf{IncrPeriod} less than
0.04 too (that's 57.6 minutes, causing the 2am backup
to be missed). The 1:03 time is probably because of
the running time for BackupPC_nightly.
Craig
