Re: [BackupPC-users] Noob questions

[Les M. <le...@fu...>]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 
>>  > Well, in my mind, I wasn't planning to do it while it's actually backing 
>>  > up. If BackupPC makes a backup every hour, I don't mind waiting until 
>>  > it's quiet to unplug the disk and take my laptop to the bedroom.
>>
>> I think your missing Les's point about this being designed from a
>> Unix/server philosophy. BackupPC runs *all* the time.
> 
> Yes. I thought BackupPC was more like a cron job that runs once every 
> hour. My current script runs every 2 hours, so I always know when it's 
> not running. But if BackupPC runs all the time, then that's different.

It is really intended to be available for web-based browsing, downloads, 
or restores all the time.  The client machine 'owners' can do that 
themselves.

> Are you aware of any backup tool that might be more suitable for what I 
> need? My script works well and I'm happy with it, but I wouldn't mind 
> getting some additional features like compression and exponential 
> backups which my script doesn't do.

The quick fix might be a cron job to start/stop the service at 
appropriate times for you.  I think it will do the test you want at 
startup - or it would be easy to add in the startup script.

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   Les Mikesell
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