Les Mikesell wrote: >> 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.
Snag is that I don't know ahead of time how long BackupPC needs to finish a given backup. I don't want to interrupt it part-way through a backup. I would be nice if I could get BackupPC to stop itself whenever it finishes doing a backup. Then it would look more like a cron job and less like an always-an daemon. But I don't suppose that there is an easy way to make it do that. It would be nice to have a non-daemon version of BackupPC... Hmm... I guess I could setup a series of cron jobs to run the various BackupPC_* programs. But I don't know if I dare try something like that. Who knows what the consequences might be. Daniel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
