Re: [BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriods seemingly ignored

2011-06-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de [2011.06.01.2010 +0200]: To get my desired behaviour, I set BlackoutGoodCnt to 0 globally and deleted all global BlackoutPeriods. […] As I understand the concept of blackouts in BackupPC, I think it is meant to automagically adapt backup strategy

Re: [BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriods seemingly ignored

2011-06-02 Thread Christian Völker
Hi Martin, I had a similar issue here with a remote site where I have a couple of hosts to backup. Only one host at a time should be backuped as otherwise the slow remote connection will be congested. What I did was to reduce (or raise?) the ping timeout time. As BackupPC tries to ping the

[BackupPC-users] backuppc keeping too many fulls

2011-06-02 Thread Matthew Ayres
I current have backuppc set up as this $Conf{FullPeriod} = '6.97' $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = ‘1’ $Conf{FullKeepCntMin}=’1’ $Conf{FullAgeMax}=’90’ But my system is saving 3 full backups how can I make only keep 1 full Thanks Matthew Ayres ProObject Systems Administrator PH 410-993-1699 Fax

Re: [BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriods seemingly ignored

2011-06-02 Thread Tod Detre
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:28 AM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: Yes, I understand the concept too, and it makes sense for an office. However, I am using BackupPC chiefly to back up globally spread machines. There are no office hours really. The only office hours that exist are for

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc keeping too many fulls

2011-06-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/2/2011 9:58 AM, Matthew Ayres wrote: I current have backuppc set up as this $Conf{FullPeriod} = '6.97' $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = ‘1’ $Conf{FullKeepCntMin}=’1’ $Conf{FullAgeMax}=’90’ But my system is saving 3 full backups how can I make only keep 1 full BackupPC will always keep the

Re: [BackupPC-users] BlackoutPeriods seemingly ignored

2011-06-02 Thread John Rouillard
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:31:57AM -0400, Tod Detre wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:28 AM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: Yes, I understand the concept too, and it makes sense for an office. However, I am using BackupPC chiefly to back up globally spread machines. There are no

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc keeping too many fulls

2011-06-02 Thread Matthew Ayres
Thanks for the response My settings for incremental backups $Conf{IncrPeriod} = '2.97' $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 3; Conf{IncrKeepCntMin} = 1; $Conf{IncrAgeMax} = 30; Matthew Ayres ProObject Systems Administrator PH 410-993-1699 Fax 410-993-1691 mgay...@proobject.com -Original Message-

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc keeping too many fulls

2011-06-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/2/2011 9:58 AM, Matthew Ayres wrote: I current have backuppc set up as this $Conf{FullPeriod} = '6.97' $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = ‘1’ $Conf{FullKeepCntMin}=’1’ $Conf{FullAgeMax}=’90’ But my system is saving 3 full backups how can I make only keep 1 full On 6/2/2011

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc keeping too many fulls

2011-06-02 Thread Matthew Ayres
Thanks I will try that out you were a big help Matthew Ayres ProObject Systems Administrator PH 410-993-1699 Fax 410-993-1691 mgay...@proobject.com -Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:bowie_bai...@buc.com] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 11:31 AM To: