On Saturday 02 November 2019 16:30:32 Konstantin Nebel wrote: > Hi, > > > Anyway from my experience borg is the best and I can recommend it > > wormly. > > I appreciate you answering in the fullest how you do backups and I > used borg in the past which I can recommend as well. But I really want > to focus on how to trigger the backup in an automated way and not in > which tool is recommended to use. > > > My use case is quite opposite. I shut down the backup server as I do > > only weekly and monthly backups. > > I assume u trigger them manually then? I would like to do them > automatically and hopefully forget about them that they exist and do > the occasional check if they work or not :)
I use GenesAmandaHelper, a wrapper around amanda that I wrote 15+ years ago and which takes care of the housekeeping better than amanda, all fired off to do my 5 machines at about 2am every morning. Its reduced me to a lazy bum since all I have to do is read the emails it sends me. Everything else is automatic. Computers should work for you, not make more work for you. > -- > Cheers > Konstantin Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
