Re: [Bobs-devel] Backup frequency

[Rene R. <re...@gr...>]

Yes, I know. The problem is modifying bobs to use that format instead.
That requires code changes since bobs is dependent on the format to work
properly.

I'm not going to work on it anytime soon, but feel free to submit
patches that make this change.

Cheers
Rene





On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 14:40, James W. Beauchamp wrote:
> Rene:
> Thanks for the explanation.  So could this be solved by simply modifying 
> the extender on the file to be:
> somefile.ext.YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
> 
> so just adding the hour, minute, second as part of the extension.  This 
> would then make the filename unique when its saved.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> Rene Rask wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 20:11, James W. Beauchamp wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi all:
> >>I have a question concerning how frequently BOBS can run a backup.  Is 
> >>there anything wrong with me moving the backup.php file from the 
> >>crond.d/backup.daily to backup.hourly?  I'm looking to get more frequent 
> >>backups to some files other than just daily.
> >>
> >>Any thoughts on pitfalls this may cause?
> >>    
> >>
> >/
> >It shouldn't cause problems if your backups can be done in less than an
> >hour. If it takes longer then the command queue would just grow and
> >grow. 
> >It may impact on the interactive performance of the bobs user interface.
> >This will not give you multiple backups of the same file on any given
> >day. It will be backed up several times a day (if modified that
> >frequently) and stored in "incremental" backups as eg.
> >"somefile.ext.2004035".
> >Bobs finest level of time awareness is one day. This is due to tagging
> >the files with and extension which is like this:
> >filename + "year" + "day of year"
> >which looks like: "filename.2004035"
> >
> >I hope this answers your question.
> >
> >Cheers
> >Rene
> >
> >
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