BackupPC Customizations

Some of the non standard customisations you might make to BackupPC on a global basis or per host.
Disable Regular Backups per host
Edit the hosts config.pl and add
$Conf{FullPeriod} = -1; $Conf{EMailNotifyOldBackupDays} = 365.0; $Conf{EMailNotifyMinDays} = 365;
-1 says no regular full backups, but still manually requested via the cgi will work.

Only notify after 365 days if a backup has not been done, then only send additional notifications every 365 days there after.

Change the Blackout Period per host
$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [ { hourBegin => 8.0, hourEnd => 9.5, weekDays => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], }, { hourBegin => 20.5, hourEnd => 22.5, weekDays => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], }, ];
Ensure Blackout periods are enforced
# Don't do backups between 8am and Midnight # Servers should be backed up overnight $Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt} = 0; $Conf{BlackoutBadPingLimit} = 3;
Notify Users when Backups Start and End
You can use....
$Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '/mnt/backup/conf/startbkpemail.sh $user $xferOK $host $type $client $cmdType'; $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} = '/mnt/backup/conf/endbkpemail.sh $user $xferOK $host $type $client $cmdType';
to specify scripts to run before and after backups. Sometimes it is nice for the end user to know when a backup is running.
Download this file and extract it into your BackupPC Conf directory. Then follow the instructions in the README.bkpemail

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