Schedulazione di backup con BackupPC

• Disabilitare la schedulazione interna di backuppc:

sudoedit /etc/backuppc/config.pl

$Conf{BackupsDisable} = 1;

• Impostare il file di contab:

cat | sudo tee /etc/cron.d/backuppc > /dev/null <<EOFile
#
# Regular cron jobs for backuppc
#
#hour   minute  DayOfMonth      Month   DayOfWeek       user    command
# check if backuppc is up and running
*               00              *                       *               *      root     /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -c
# Run incremental backup of machine name hostname with ip address ip.address as user backuppc from Mon to Fri at 22:00
22              00              *                       *               1-5    root     /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup ip.address hostname backuppc 0
# Run full backup of machine name hostname with ip address ip.address as user backuppc at Sat at 22:00
22              00              *                       *               6      root     /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup ip.address hostname backuppc 1
EOFile

• Testare con

sudo -u backuppc usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup ip.address hostname backuppc 0
sudo -u backuppc  /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status jobs

Riferimenti

• SourceForge.net: Schedule Backups With Cron - backuppc
• BackupPC Documentation - Step 8: Checking email delivery
• SourceForge.net: ServerMesg commands - backuppc

• SourceForge.net: Tips and Tricks - backuppc