Re: [BackupPC-users] Help with monthly schedule configuration

[Gerald Brandt]

On 2017-11-16 03:16 AM, Jamie Burchell wrote:

Thanks Ray



What should the incremental period be here 0.97



Jamie

I’ll be honest, I still don’t understand those settings after re-reading several times. I’m also only interested in one month’s worth, so can that schedule be simplified?

Hi,

I  have:

Full Backups

FullPeriod <http://192.168.103.155/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_fullperiod_> FullKeepCnt <http://192.168.103.155/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_fullkeepcnt_> FullKeepCntMin <http://192.168.103.155/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_fullkeepcntmin_> FullAgeMax <http://192.168.103.155/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_fullagemax_>

Incremental Backups

IncrPeriod <http://192.168.103.155/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_incrperiod_> IncrKeepCnt <http://192.168.103.155/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_incrkeepcnt_> IncrKeepCntMin <http://192.168.103.155/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_incrkeepcntmin_> IncrAgeMax <http://192.168.103.155/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_incragemax_> IncrLevels <http://192.168.103.155/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_incrlevels_> IncrFill <http://192.168.103.155/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_incrfill_>

And then a few scripts that maintain what I want. Attached.



Gerald


Gerald

This gives me full backups every Friday and on the last day of the month, and keeps backups for as long as I want (specified in prune_backups.sh)

archive_backups.sh
Description: application/shellscript

#!/bin/bash

# force all hosts in the host file do have a full backup on Friday
# unless that Friday is the last workday of the month
if [ ! $(cal | tr -s '[:blank:]' '\n' |tail -1) = $(date +%d) ]
then
  for HOST in $(cat /etc/backuppc/hosts | grep ^[A-Za-z0-9] | grep -v host | 
grep -v archive | awk '{print $1}')
  do
    /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup ${HOST} ${HOST} backuppc 
1
#   echo ${HOST}
  done
fi

#!/bin/bash

# force all hosts in the host file do have a full backup on last day of month
TODAY=`/bin/date +%d`
TOMORROW=`/bin/date +%d -d "1 day"`

#if [ $(cal | tr -s '[:blank:]' '\n' |tail -1) = $(date +%d) ]
if [ $TOMORROW -lt $TODAY ]
then
  for HOST in $(cat /etc/backuppc/hosts | grep ^[A-Za-z0-9] | grep -v host | 
grep -v archive | awk '{print $1}')
  do
    /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup ${HOST} ${HOST} backuppc 
1
#   echo ${HOST}
  done
fi

prune_backups.sh
Description: application/shellscript

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