topic Re: full backup in Operating System - HP-UX

full backup

bassey essien_1 — Tue, 07 Nov 2000 17:59:38 GMT

i run an incremental backup monday thru
thursday, then run full backup on friday.
Now i will like to make thursday a full backup level, do i need to modify my current
crontab files and the tar scripts, please help.

Re: full backup

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Tue, 07 Nov 2000 18:02:58 GMT

Hi
If you are using two scripts - one for the incremental and one for the full then no.

Just change the crontab to include a thursday full backup - do not forget to remove the thursday incremental from the crontab as well.

Re: full backup

Maureen Gunkel — Tue, 07 Nov 2000 18:03:50 GMT

Hi-
I would think so, but it depends on how you have them set up. Do you have separate tar scripts for incremental/full? Or do you specify in your cron entry which to do? If you could submit your cron entr(y/ies) I would gladly help.

Maureen

Re: full backup

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Tue, 07 Nov 2000 18:05:47 GMT

Hi
No if you are using two seperate scripts.

Just ammend the crontab to include the full backup on Thursday but do not forget to remove the incremental for Thursday.

HTH

Paula

Re: full backup

Maureen Gunkel — Tue, 07 Nov 2000 18:06:00 GMT

Hi-
I would think so. But it depends on how you have it set up. Do you use separate tar scripts for incremental/full? Or do you specify which in your cron statement? If you could submit your cron entr(y/ies) I would be happy to help.
Maureen

Re: full backup

Victor BERRIDGE — Tue, 07 Nov 2000 18:06:19 GMT

Difficult to answer with what we know...
Whats in your crontab? a call to allways the same backup script or is there a different one for fridays...

Regards
Victor

Re: full backup

Rick Garland — Tue, 07 Nov 2000 18:07:09 GMT

You will need to modify the scripts, etc. to tell it that full backups happen on Thursdays as opposed to Fridays. If your scripts are working off the numeric days of the week, 0=Sunday and 6=Saturday. So for Thursday, it is Thursday=4. You would probably modify the cron to run the full on day 4 and the incrementals on other days,
This is assuming that you start the backups via the days of the week.

Re: full backup

Rick Garland — Tue, 07 Nov 2000 18:07:15 GMT