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Asked by Helmut Schulz

I am a new uer of BiT and ran a few scheduled snapshots so far.

First I scheduled the snapshots on main profile to run at 1500 hours and to locate the snapshots on a USB stick
with the MSDOS file system.
Then I reformated the destination USB stick to EXT 3/4 and changed the run time to 2000 hours, these changes again on Main Profile.

Now the snapshots do run at 2000 hours but at 1500 hours BiT tells me that a snapshot is about to run as soon as
the Destination drive wil be available and asking for the old name of the USB stick. In Formatting the USB stick got a new name.

I looked at the config file of BiT and I do have only one profile and the name of the destination is the new name of the USB
stick and the time is 2000 hours. Where is the time of 1500 hours and the old name of the USB stored? I would like to eliminate them.

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Germar (germar) said : 		#1

Did you set up one profile with root and the other one with your regular user? BackInTime installs two different icons for this.

If that doesn't help you could run 'crontab -e' and/or 'sudo crontab -e' from Terminal and delete the unwanted schedule in there.

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Helmut Schulz (g-helmut) said : 		#2

Thanks for the reply.

Sudo crontab -e yields an empty file. I have the same result when I click on the icon BiT root.

crontab -e produces the following information only:

#Back In Time system entry, this will be edited by the gui:
0 20 * * * /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/bin/backintime --backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1

That seems to be the backup of 2000 hours. Am I looking at the right place?

What GUI are they referring to in the "commented out" line?

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Germar (germar) said : 		#3

BIT does only use crontab for timed schedules. So you're looking at the right places. Except you tried out BIT with different users before?

The GUI which is mentioned in crontab is the normal GUI that you will get if you click on the BIT icon. Okay, not directly that screen, but the Settings dialog.

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Helmut Schulz (g-helmut) said : 		#4

I have now uninstalled BiT and reinstalled, did not delete the profile.

I have to wait now for 24 hours to see if the old request for back up
occurs again.

Will report soon.

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Helmut Schulz (g-helmut) said : 		#5

I have now uninstalled BiT and reinstalled, did not delete the profile.

I have to wait now for 24 hours to see if the old request for back up
occurs again.

Will report soon.

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Helmut Schulz (g-helmut) said : 		#6

The request for the obsolete backup does not reoccur.
I assume re-installing BiT removed it.