Re: [Bobs-devel] Backup frequency

[James W. B. <jbe...@mi...>]

Roger.

James


Rene Rask wrote:

>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
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>On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 14:40, James W. Beauchamp wrote:
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>>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
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>>Rene Rask wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 20:11, James W. Beauchamp wrote:
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>>>>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?
>>>>   
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>>>/
>>>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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