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Possible to change hourly backup frequency?

Asked by Cyberdude

I've been using BiT for almost a year now and it has worked well.

I have the backup frequency set to hourly but would like to have it less frequent, like 2 or 3 hours. I have so many large files to back up that it takes almost 40 minutes to complete a backup. While the backup is being performed my system becomes a little sluggish so I would like to increase the interval of the backups.

Daily backup is no good for me as the laptop is not left on overnight so the daily backup never runs.

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Best Bart de Koning (bratdaking) said : 		#1

In the next release you will be able to set the time at which you like to take the snapshot, would that fix your problem,

otherwise file an [enhancement] bug on our bug page!

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Bart de Koning (bratdaking) said : 		#2

Btw, a year! Cool: a true fan! Thanks for your confidence in our application,
you are probably one of the longest users we have now, almost since the first release :-)

Is there anything you dislike after a year of usage?
Or some other troubles that you encounter?

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Cyberdude (gabor-sunseaker) said : 		#3

Thanks for getting back to me Bart.

If you mean that in the next version we'll be able to set a specific time like 10:00 or 14:00 then it won't solve my problem.

I would still like frequent backup during the day so for me it would be more useful to specify something like "Do the back up every X hours" where X could be a user assigned value from 1 to 23 for example. If this is what you meant then yes that will be great.

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Cyberdude (gabor-sunseaker) said : 		#4

I see you've opened an "Enchancement request" for this so I am marking this as answered. Thanks.

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Cyberdude (gabor-sunseaker) said : 		#5

Thanks Bart de Koning, that solved my question.