Also digging deep ... (wish we still had the old wiki!)
Run/schedule a backup on a single host.
BackupPC_serverMesg backup HOSTIP HOST USER 0/1
schedule backup for a host now. 0/1 0 incremental backup, 1 full
backup. E.G.
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup host.example.tld
host.example.tld backuppc 1
The syntax to get status for a single host is:
BackupPC_serverMesg 'status host(mail.test.com)'
Run (schedule really) nightly cleanup
BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_nightly run
Dump some info. Pipe to perltidy as it is a nested data structure.
Not sure what it's actually dumping or how to use it or glean info
from it.
BackupPC_serverMesg status info
Dump currently running (and maybe scheduled??) jobs. Looks like an
associative array with the keys set to the hostname or other service
jobs like " trashClean". Again useful to pipe through perltidy.
BackupPC_serverMesg status jobs
List status of each host. State field will tell you if the host is
idle, backup is in progress...
BackupPC_serverMesg status hosts
Start scheduling backups for all hosts
BackupPC_serverMesg backup all
Stop/delay backups
BackupPC_serverMesg stop HOST REQ_USER BACKOFF
HOST is the host to cancel, REQ_USER is the requesting user (just for
log purposes) and BACKOFF is the backoff time in hours.
https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/19201808/
Also current docs:
https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/blob/c4b4c643c9c1a9f5400e70135cbd9ba46ca71ede/doc-src/BackupPC.pod#step-7-talking-to-backuppc
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