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.
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.
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
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.
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.
