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How do I set up automatic backups?

Asked by Steve Garton

Hi There,

how can I set up BiT to do automatic backups? I have selected 'Every Day' in the settings box, but no backups are happening, and I cannot find any references in any cron files (/etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.daily, sudo crontab -e, crontab -e)

Am I missing a setting somewhere?

Thanks

Steve

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Best Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

To the moment "every day" means a midnight :)

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bananenkasper (bananenkasper) said : 		#2

Where is this information stored?

no cron files are touched.

How does that work on a user basis (not allowed to touch /etc/cron...)

Wouldn't it be nice to use anacron instead?

So you would not miss any backups if your computer is not running at 0.00...

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florianr (florianr-gmx) said : 		#3

Same Question here ....

Where ist the setting stored? I set it up for hourly backups, but I don't see it running. I also see no changes in any cron related file or folder.

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Steve Garton (sheepeatingtaz) said : 		#4

Thanks Dan, that solved my question.

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buhtz (buhtz) said : 		#5

I have the same question using 1.1.4.

I set BiT up to do backups automaticly and use cron for that. Doesn't know what "nice" and "ionice" means in the expert options but activated it.

But I can not found any information about BiT in the (ana)cron settings files.

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Germar (germar) said : 		#6

BIT uses crontab for this because this is the only way to set up cron jobs as unprivileged user. You'll find the jobs with 'crontab -l'.

For nice and ionice please take a look at 'man nice' respectively 'man ionice'