-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gerald Brandt wrote: > That was actually my first thought, but the accounting system has > EVERYTHING (accounting, inventory, payroll, in MS SQL Server) in it, so > it would get prohibitively big. > > I was thinking of 1 cron entry to do backups every Friday, and another > one to do full backups on the last workday of every month. I'm just not > quite sure what to set myPeriod values to so that CRON override BackupPC.
Set the FullPeriod to 8 days, that way, if your cron job is wrong, then backuppc will at least trigger the backup on the Saturday. I'm assuming you will leave backuppc to trigger the daily incrementals as needed? Regards, Adam - -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktfiJMACgkQGyoxogrTyiUdXgCeOTyOmqzh7PukFGFYMB1QdR0E crMAn3UkljzvwqIkugJZn6Rkboh3qa+R =im0H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-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/
