Re: [rsnapshot-discuss] Question about intervals for home users

[Serge v. G. <se...@va...>]

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.
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> 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.
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> 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

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Serge van Ginderachter