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From: Serge v. G. <se...@va...> - 2006-01-27 16:09:06
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On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 17:39 +0200, Marc van Munnen wrote: > As a home user I don't have my pc running all the time. Actually, only on= e or two hours a day at most. I started with the usual hourly, daily, weekl= y etc. intervals, but I found that the monthly, weekly and even daily backu= ps seldom were made. Just because my computer was not up at the scheduled m= oment. >=20 > I would like to have some script that decided that, instead of making the= usual hourly backup, it is time to do the daily backup, because I had miss= ed that. Etc. >=20 > But because I'm not very good in scripting in Linux, I did away with all = the different intervals, and started working with backup.0 till backup.365,= making a backup every hour. I presume that I make 1 backup each day on the= everage, so I end up with an whole year of backups. > Is this sensible? You might consider doing daily and weekly backups, loosing the hourlies, and installing the anacron package to run missed cron events.=20 --=20 Serge van Ginderachter |