Re: [BackupPC-devel] some small questions

[Vincent F. <vi...@bi...>]

> How do people for now force full
> backups to occur only eg. Saturday evening?
>

Hi,

I backup my server with BackupPC every night. I perform a full backup on monday and
incremental backups the other days.

I disable automatic backups for this specific host with the following directive in
the host's config file (which overrides the global conf):

$Conf{FullPeriod} = -1;

This way, BackupPC will never automaticaly start a backup job.

Then, I tell BackupPC to start a full backup via a simple bash script run from the
crontab:

---

#!/bin/bash

DAY=`date +"%u"`

if [ $DAY -eq 1 ] ; then
    BACKUP_MODE=1
else
    BACKUP_MODE=0
fi

sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup <server_IP>
<server_name> backuppc $BACKUP_MODE

---

I'm not a bash guru and I know that BackupPC has been designed for automatic backup
scheduling, but this has been working perfectly for me for more than 2 years now.

Give it a try!

-- Vincent