Re: [BackupPC-users] Adding new shares during incremental backups

[Carl W. S. <ch...@re...>]

On 01/12 11:59 , Richard Smith wrote:
> On 1/12/06, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <ch...@re...> wrote:> On 01/12 10:02 , Richard Smith wrote:> > Do I have to force a full backup if I add a new share to a host?>> yes.>
> Ok.  Well then is there a way to schedule a full backup to occur?  Ireally don't want to wait up till midnight to press the manual backupbutton.

This comes up on a resonably regular basis. Here's a message that Craig was
kind enough to post a few days ago:
>>>
To actually force a backup you need to issue a BackupPC_serverMesg
for each host, and tell it whether you want a full or incremental:

    BackupPC_serverMesg backup HOSTIP HOST USER FULL

HOSTIP is the host's IP address, or can be the same as HOST if
HOST's ip address can be looked up via dns or smb.  HOST is the
host is backup.  USER is the user name requesting the backup,
and FULL is a 0 or 1 flag whether to do a full or incremental.

Craig
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So create a cron or at job to run your BackupPC_serverMesg program, with the
necessary options to backup the host in question.

Normally, I just go ahead and do the backup during working hours, or at the
end of the day before I go home tho. the load that backuppc puts on the
machine in question usually isn't as bad as the sort of load that a tape
backup would (since it's more CPU-bound than I/O-bound).


> Just curious.  Why?  How is this different from if I just create a newfile
> or directory on an existing share.

not sure. I'm not a coder for this project. :)

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com