Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-31 Thread Gerald Brandt
- Gerald Brandt g...@majentis.com 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-27 Thread Tino Schwarze
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 found a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-27 Thread Gerald Brandt
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 requirements.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-27 Thread Gerald Brandt
- Luis Paulo luis.bar...@gmail.com 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-27 Thread Les Mikesell
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, lets say the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-27 Thread Gerald Brandt
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-27 Thread Luis Paulo
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

[BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-26 Thread Gerald Brandt
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. For example, if BackupPC does a weekly full

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-26 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-26 Thread Gerald Brandt
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 of keeping

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-26 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-26 Thread Gerald Brandt
- Adam Goryachev mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-26 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-26 Thread Gerald Brandt
- Adam Goryachev mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-26 Thread Luis Paulo
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 g...@majentis.com wrote: - Adam Goryachev mailingli...@websitemanagers.com.au wrote: Why expire all

Re: [BackupPC-users] Strict backup schedule

2010-01-26 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
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 will