Hourly Backup?

[JBender]

Is it possible?

[Mayoff]

yes

[JBender]

...with Retrospect?

 

(and how, I might add)

[twickland]

(and how, I might add)

There are a couple of options:

 

For a regular backup script, just write the desired number of schedulers into your backup script. The shortest default interval available is every day at X time of day, so you'd need to add a daily scheduler for each hour that you want a backup to begin. For a normal 8-hour workday, that would require 8 schedulers.

 

Be aware, of course, that one entire backup has to be able to be completed within the hour. If it can't, you will run up a backlog of backups waiting to run.

 

A Backup Server script may work better in your case. Backup server scripts are active at all times (or for whatever custom schedule you choose to define). For hourly backups, select Backup every 1 hour under Options for Backup Server. To define the times of day when a backup may be performed, make your choices under "Schedule."

 

Using the Backup Server method, if a particular backup takes longer than an hour to complete, you won't run into the backlog problem.

[JBender]

Thanks. I'll add 8 scripts, then. I'm assuming that the scripts can all increment the same backup set.

 

I don't think the server script is an option, because the drive is on the same machine as Retrospect server is running. Unless it can "loop back" to itself as a client...

[CallMeDave]

I don't think the server script is an option, because the drive is on the same machine as Retrospect server is running. Unless it can "loop back" to itself as a client..

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No, you can't log a client into Retrospect running on the same machine.

 

But Retrospect can use local attached volumes as a Source the same way that it uses remote Client machines. Just select or define the volumes you want in your Backup Server or regular Backup script.

 

Dave