- "Gerald Brandt" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a situation where I need a 'strict' backup schedule.
>
> Our accounting data must be backed up daily, with weekly fulls on Friday and
> Monthly fulls on the last day of the month. Have mid-week and every 4 week
> fulls could mean we lose data.
I see your point about restoring with the GUI. On the other hand, as Les
said about database dumps, I'm afraid you could not be saving much with
BackupPC
If you are going to cron delete backups, I looked to Matthias Meyer delete
scipt again. This lines may help
while read CLine
do
> I'd set full backups to run 8 days or more apart (which won't ever be
> hit), and use a cron job that runs just after midnight on saturdays and
> the first day of the month (cron entry like "10 0 1 * 6") to kick off a
> full. Unless your software automatically does a cleanup/rollover at
> m
On 1/27/2010 7:41 AM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>
> >
> > Why are you so strict on keeping _only_ those backups? Why not just keep
> > some more (which won't cost you a lot of space because of the pooling)?
> >
> > Or maybe I didn't get the point?
> >
> > Tino.
> >
>
> I don't mind keeping more,
- "Luis Paulo" wrote:
> If what you want to is keep a full backup for the last day of every month,
>
> Why not make a zip dump on those days and store it on a disk?
>
>
>
Although a sound plan, and something that can be automated, it overrides
BackupPC's hardlink mechanism and incre
>
> Why are you so strict on keeping _only_ those backups? Why not just keep
> some more (which won't cost you a lot of space because of the pooling)?
>
> Or maybe I didn't get the point?
>
> Tino.
>
I don't mind keeping more, lets say the fridays and end of months are the
minimum requir
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:24:06PM -0600, Gerald Brandt wrote:
> > Why expire all of January in the first week of February? That means you
> > only have one weeks history? Why not just tell backuppc to keep 5
> > 'weekly' fulls, which means you will always have the ones you want?
> >
> > > I f
Adam Goryachev wrote at about 12:40:34 +1100 on Wednesday, January 27, 2010:
> Gerald Brandt wrote:
> > I'm having problems with expiry though. Take this months for example.
> > I'll have 5 full backups on January 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. The 29th will
> > also be the monthly backup. Then February
If what you want to is keep a full backup for the last day of every month,
Why not make a zip dump on those days and store it on a disk?
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>
> - "Adam Goryachev" wrote:
> >
> > Why expire all of January in the first week of February? Tha
- "Adam Goryachev" wrote:
>
> Why expire all of January in the first week of February? That means you
> only have one weeks history? Why not just tell backuppc to keep 5
> 'weekly' fulls, which means you will always have the ones you want?
>
> > I found a delete script that can do the d
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Gerald Brandt wrote:
> I'm having problems with expiry though. Take this months for example.
> I'll have 5 full backups on January 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. The 29th will
> also be the monthly backup. Then February will be 5, 12, 19, 26, with
> the 26 being
- "Adam Goryachev" wrote:
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> Gerald Brandt wrote:
> > That was actually my first thought, but the accounting system has
> > EVERYTHING (accounting, inventory, payroll, in MS SQL Server) in it, so
> > it would get prohibitively big.
>
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Gerald Brandt wrote:
> That was actually my first thought, but the accounting system has
> EVERYTHING (accounting, inventory, payroll, in MS SQL Server) in it, so
> it would get prohibitively big.
>
> I was thinking of 1 cron entry to do backups every
>
> The simplest method would be something like this:
>
> $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [365];
>
> This would give you every backup for the past 12 months... If this is
> only accounting data, then I presume it is relatively small (as
> opposed to user file shares and emails).
>
> Don't be scared o
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Gerald Brandt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a situation where I need a 'strict' backup schedule.
>
> Our accounting data must be backed up daily, with weekly fulls on
> Friday and Monthly fulls on the last day of the month. Have
> mid-week and every 4 week f
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