On Tuesday 09 February 2010 08:01:59 am Timothy J Massey wrote: > Michael Osburn <[email protected]> wrote on 02/08/2010 06:42:34 > PM: > > > I am looking for a way to automatically archive my oldest full > > backups to a different mount point. The goal is to have fairly > > recent backups stored off onto a SAN device, then remove the oldest > > backup. I have looked at the archive host option, but this would > > require a lot of manual intervention as we would need to select the > > backups some time during the week and then letting the fulls age away. > > Is there a reason you're moving the *oldest*? The newest would be very > easy. The oldest slightly more difficult. > > The archive command accepts negative numbers for the backup number. So, > to get the most recent, simply use "-1". For the oldest, use the number > of fulls plus the number of incrementals. Of course, if you haven't yet > done enough backups to get that far yet, that won't work. That's the > "slightly more difficult" part... :) > > I have a cron script that I run once a week to archive the latest backup > to a removable hard drive. Let me know if you'd like to see it. It's > really pretty simple, though. It doesn't do as much error checking as I'd > like (like making sure the removable drive is mounted properly), but the > archive part works perfectly, thanks to BackupPC. > > Tim Massey > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >
Thanks Tim, I need to get things confirmed with management first but I think that doing the latest would work for what I need. I did not see the "-1" option when looking at the archive host option. Do you mind sharing your script? Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
