Answer to No. 1 question: Yes. Answer to No. 2 question: Part 1: Because ten hours is, in my case, sufficient time for it to have safely completed it's tasks. Part 2: Been backing up my four computers like this since January, 2011. Had a completed backup everyday for each computer.
I have a small system. If I had, for example, 10 computers to backup, I would let backuppc server run all the time, backup during the night (like I do now) and all would be great. But, like I said, I'm small, so . . . . Now I just need to get my clients to shutdown when they have completed their backup, hum . . . . next project! Robert Wooden Nashville, TN. USA Computer Freedom? . . . Linux On 09/04/2011 08:43 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: > > 1. Is BackupPC_nightly getting a chance to run (regularly)? > 2. Supposing you are automatically shutting down your BackupPC server, how > do you make sure you are doing that when everything is idle? In > particular, > if the first backup attempt ever fails, will BackupPC get a chance to > retry, > or will you miss a backup that day? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/
