Hi, bpb21 wrote on 2016-05-18 10:22:22 -0700 [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC - take a day off?]: > [someone else wrote:] > > Maybe it's possible to create a blackout period for that day? Not sure if > > one should specify saturday or sunday as weekdays. > > [...] > > Thanks! I think this is it. I completely overlooked this for all the > other settings. Sounds promising.
well, yes, that is the solution that comes to mind. I'm not sure the problem you are solving is the important one, though. What exactly are you trying to scan for viruses, your backups or the rest of the system? Assuming you are scanning the backups: Does your anti-virus software handle compression (i.e. the non-standard format used by BackupPC)? If not, then your anti-virus software will run just fine, consume lots of CPU time and keep your hard disks busy, but it will be pretty much guaranteed to never find anything (which might be what you are actually hoping for, but it would also be very much meaningless). If it does work, remember that you want to scan only the pool, not the pc/ directory structure. Since BackupPC conveniently only stores the data once, you only need to scan it once. Assuming you are *not* scanning the backups: Be sure to exclude the backups from the AV scan - it would take forever and probably be quite pointless. As a side note, the nightly job you seem to be referring to - BackupPC_nightly - is not "pooling and compression", it's more like "housekeeping and statistics". Compression is done during backups. Pooling is done during backups for existing files (i.e. where an identical file is known to BackupPC) and during BackupPC_link for new files. Hope that helps. Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ 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/