Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling a backup at a particular hour daily

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

On 01/31 02:25 , da...@on... wrote:
> Is there any way to schedule a backup at a particular hour daily?

the tool for that is BackupPC_serverMesg, and you can run it out of cron.
Here's what I have in my notes, which includes a message from Craig, I
think.

>>>
BackupPC_serverMesg is used to send a message to the running server,
telling it to start a backup of a given host. This is the preferred
method of starting off a backup at a definite time, called out of a cron
job or the like.

> To start a backup using BackupPC_serverMesg:
>
> /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg HOST HOSTIP USER INCR
>
> where
>
> - HOST is the client name to backup
>
> - HOSTIP is the IP address if DHCP, or otherwise just the host name
>
> - USER is the user name requesting the backup
>
> - INCR = 1 for incremental and 0 for full.
>
> This just emulates what the CGI script does. 
>>>

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Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
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