Re: [BackupPC-users] Scheduling archiving host

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> So here I'm back again with some sort of "idea"...
> 
>> In the web interface is a part called "Scheduled". I would 
>> believe that you can configure the backup in the same way as 
>> for normal backups.
>> But I didn't try it by myself.
> 
> The part you're talking about is *not* being considered and I guess this
> is ok.
> 
> My idea would be to cronjob the commandline, as from the logs:
> 
> Executing: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split  polti 36
> /bin/gzip .gz 0000000 /mnt/USB  *
> 
> The only thing is: how would I be able to get the number (in this case
> "36") of the latest backup to archive? Or better, I'd like ro archive
> *all* the data of one host: does this happen also when I archive an
> incremental backup?
> 

Just forget that the archivehost concept even exists and run 
BackupPC_tarCreate directly in your script/command line with the 
arguments and output pipeline  you want. 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#commandline_restore_options
You can use -n -1 for the most recent backup, and incrementals are 
filled to look like fulls.

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   Les Mikesell
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