Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Jean-Michel Beuken
Hello, in the same idea, about starting a full backup at well-defined day of the week (sunday for example), is it possible to use the $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} ? I had looked in the code and the problem that there isn't return code after executing the script defined by DumpPreUserCmd in the Ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Gamble
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:56, Scott Gamble wrote: > > Hunh - so the word is be patient and see if it wakes up and does what its > > suppose to? > > Only if you have one of the constraints: too many already running > or backuppc_nightly running. Yeah neither of those things appear to be at iss

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:56, Scott Gamble wrote: > Hunh - so the word is be patient and see if it wakes up and does what its > suppose to? Only if you have one of the constraints: too many already running or backuppc_nightly running. > I don't see any kind of immediate feedback beyond that oka

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Gamble
fire up a script to execute them all in order if thats all we're talking about. Thanks Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 206 412 3055 > - Original Message - > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups > From: Les Mi

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:21, Scott Gamble wrote: > On a related note, this is what I see when i execute the following > > ark ~ # sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup > 10.0.0.21 mail backuppc 1 > Got reply: ok: requested backup of mail > > But nothing happens. I a

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Gamble
----- > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups > From: Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Scott Gamble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: 08-24-2005 8:05 am > > > Scott Gamble writes: &

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Craig Barratt
Scott Gamble writes: > I know this has been touched on repeatedly - and from kinda glossing through > the archives I gather that its not a new idea at all, but is there any > reason why scheduling of backups couldn't be handled exclusively by cron > instead of the backuppc mechanism? The time fun

RE: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Brown, Wade ASL (GE Healthcare)
Gamble Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 2:23 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups uh, in the event the formatting of my post gets mangled in your mail client, you can view it here. The crontab section is much easier to read when

Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Gamble
. Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 206 412 3055 > - Original Message - > Subject: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups > From: Scott Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net" > Date

[BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Gamble
I know this has been touched on repeatedly - and from kinda glossing through the archives I gather that its not a new idea at all, but is there any reason why scheduling of backups couldn't be handled exclusively by cron instead of the backuppc mechanism? The time functionality on backuppc seems t