On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:35:23 CDT, Les Mikesell writes: <scheduling full backups to only occur on certain days, no matter what>
>Working around a problem of a machine that crashes and >doesn't restart automatically seems like the inelegant part >to me. Is this something you can fix? If it isn't on a UPS, >even a small one might get it through short power glitches. I think the real reason for that host falling over sometimes is the patched-to-death-and-beyond kernel from RHEL3 - which I'm not allowed to change (commercial software app only supported on RHEL3). >If you make your blackout interval cover the time when the >reboot is likely to happen, backuppc shouldn't start any >new runs until the blackout ends. That still won't quite >work since if you start at 5PM, 20 hours later will still >take half of the next workday. Exactly. > The other choice seems to >be making backuppc run scheduled incrementals only and >forcing the fulls manually or with a cron job. I was hoping for a way to do this with BackupPC itself, but if there isn't, well, cron it is. cheers, &rw -- -- "I'm not proud. We really haven't done everything we could to protect -- our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security." -- - Brian Valentine, senior vice-president in charge of MS's -- Windows development.
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