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ReadyNAS Backup Scheduling
I have multiple shares that are backed-up weekly from one NAS to another. Recently, this has become an issue because all the backups are configured to do a full followed by 3 incremental, which means...
Unfortunately, there is no way to do it via the GUI. You can try creating the full backups as separate jobs and then editing /etc/cron.d/frontview-backup to change the frequency, but I don't know how that will affect the GUI. And you'd need to be comfortable with the Linux command line to implement it. Any other change via the GUI would likely undo your manual edits, so you'd have to do them again.
I think that not scheduling the full backups via the GUI and then manually creating a separate cron.d entry (/etc/cron.d/monthly-backup, as an example, though putting it in cron.weekly may be better) would likely be a better method. But I don't know if fvbackup (the executable that does the backups) will prevent that from causing multiple simultaneous backups, which could bog down a 104. But since nothing in the cron job seems to prevent that, I suspect that fvbackup is responsible for "stacking up" the backups instead of doing them simultaneously.
Sandshark wrote:
You can try creating the full backups as separate jobs and then editing /etc/cron.d/frontview-backup to change the frequency, but I don't know how that will affect the GUI. And you'd need to be comfortable with the Linux command line to implement it. Any other change via the GUI would likely undo your manual edits, so you'd have to do them again.
I've done this something like this with frontview-volumeschedule, though for a different purpose (starting up maintenance tasks on days when my backup NAS were turned on, since they are on a power schedule).
You would need to examine backup_jobs.conf in order to determine the job number associated with each backup.
Thanks guys, much appreciated. 👍
I've also got my target NAS (the RN104) on a power schedule, so currently it switches on once a week, pulls the backups and then shuts down again (eventually!).
I'll have a look at configuring it using cron.d and no doubt come back with more questions! 😉
So my frontview-backup has entries like this:
5 00-23/24 * * mon root /frontview/bin/fvbackup 007 &> /dev/null
where '007' correlates to the 7th backup job in the list shown in the GUI.
So I looked in /frontview/bin expecting to see a file called '007' that would contain the definition of the backup job, including when to do a full and when to do an incremental, but there isn't one.
Does anyone know where '007' is? (and don't say "ask Ms Moneypenny" 😁).
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