Daniel Carrera wrote:
>
>> > Well, in my mind, I wasn't planning to do it while it's actually backing
>> > up. If BackupPC makes a backup every hour, I don't mind waiting until
>> > it's quiet to unplug the disk and take my laptop to the bedroom.
>>
>> I think your missing Les's point about this being designed from a
>> Unix/server philosophy. BackupPC runs *all* the time.
>
> Yes. I thought BackupPC was more like a cron job that runs once every
> hour. My current script runs every 2 hours, so I always know when it's
> not running. But if BackupPC runs all the time, then that's different.
It is really intended to be available for web-based browsing, downloads,
or restores all the time. The client machine 'owners' can do that
themselves.
> Are you aware of any backup tool that might be more suitable for what I
> need? My script works well and I'm happy with it, but I wouldn't mind
> getting some additional features like compression and exponential
> backups which my script doesn't do.
The quick fix might be a cron job to start/stop the service at
appropriate times for you. I think it will do the test you want at
startup - or it would be easy to add in the startup script.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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