Hi. By the way, after few days of searching, we will launch the two big full backups on the same day, which will start the Friday at 11PM, if it lasts for 20 hours, it's not going to be a problem because people don't usually work on Saturdays, :).
Thanks. Mcdonagh Ed (The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust) wrote: > All the transfer methods (smb, rsync, tar) allow you to specify which folders > you wish to back up. > > The way to achieve what you want is to create two 'hosts' to be backed up, > say myserver1 and myserver2 for the server myserver. For each one set up for > just one of the two folders, with the scheduling options you want. > > Then for both, set the host alias to myserver. Job done. > > We do this quite a lot to reduce the length of individual backups, or to put > in more stringent blackouts for files that mustn't be touched during working > hours (database files with no shadow copy available), and less strict for > non-critical files. > > Be warned though the backup server will not think they are the same machine, > so will happily back up both folders simultaneously. > > Cyril Lavier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi. > > I have another question on Backuppc. > > Here is the situation : > > We have 2 big folders (500 and 600GB) full off small files. > > They are on the same server, and apparently, with backuppc, I can only > backup a full server. > > But with these two folders, a full backup lasts for more than 20 hours, > and these folders are expected to grow in the near future. > > So I would like to know if there's a way to schedule full backups like > this on a time span of 4 weeks > > 1st saturday : full folder1, incremental folder2 > 1st week, monday to friday : incremental folder1 and folder2 > 2nd saturday : full folder2, incremental folder1 > 2nd week, monday to friday : incremental folder1 and folder2 > 3rd saturday : incremental folder1 and folder2 > 3rd week, monday to friday : incremental folder1 and folder2 > 4th saturday : incremental folder1 and folder2 > 4rd week, monday to friday : incremental folder1 and folder2 > > The important part is the first two weeks. > > If anybody has some ideas about how to do something like this with > backuppc, this could help me a lot. > > Thanks. > > -- > Cyril LAVIER | Systems Administrator | LTU Technologies > 132 Rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris France > (tel) +33 (0)1 53 43 01 71 | (mail) [email protected] > LTU technologies - Making Sense of Visual Content | www.LTUtech.com > > -- Cyril LAVIER | Systems Administrator | LTU Technologies 132 Rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris France (tel) +33 (0)1 53 43 01 71 | (mail) [email protected] LTU technologies - Making Sense of Visual Content | www.LTUtech.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
