I just have a cron job that starts a full backup at a specific time and then have the full backup period slightly over 1 week.
here's the line from crontab: 0 20 * * sat /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup <hostname> <hostname> root 1 you have to put this in backuppc's crontab (or use su/sudo to change to the backuppc user) --Tod On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Rob Poe <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a way to control the day that the full backup happens? I have > a server I'm backing up that has more than 450 gigs, and the full backup > takes ~ 2 days, which I'd like to happen over a weekend. > > So I'd like the full to take place on a Friday. > > Unless BackupPC makes a "full" backup after the first one that is really > only an rsync of what it already has... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve Improved Network Security with IP and DNS Reputation. > Defend against bad network traffic, including botnets, malware, > phishing sites, and compromised hosts - saving your company time, > money, and embarrassment. Learn More! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpdev2dev-nov > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve Improved Network Security with IP and DNS Reputation. Defend against bad network traffic, including botnets, malware, phishing sites, and compromised hosts - saving your company time, money, and embarrassment. Learn More! http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpdev2dev-nov _______________________________________________ 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/
