[Box Backup] Restoring a corrupted archive?

[Stuart Hickinbottom]

Yes - there are usually directories such as the following:

/etc/cron.daily
/etc/cron.weekly
/etc/cron.monthly

You can just drop executable scripts or binaries in there and they'll be 
run with /approximately/ that frequency (no guarantees). Any output from 
those scripts/binaries is emailed to a responsible adult on the system 
(usually root).

This is the case on at least Red Hat Enterprise and Gentoo - I can't 
readily check others.

Stuart


James O'Gorman wrote:
> Chris Wilson wrote:
>> Box Backup is designed for efficient backups over the Internet, 
>> perhaps it might be wise to run it directly to the remote server in 
>> future? Together with regular compares, that should minimise the 
>> chances of getting corrupt data in your store, and alert you quickly 
>> to problems before they become fatal.
>
> Do any of the Linux distributions have anything like FreeBSD's 
> periodic(8)? This thread has prompted me to start writing a periodic 
> script that I will include with the FreeBSD port, that will run once a 
> month and run "bbackupquery -q 'compare -a' quit" (with the -a flag 
> being changeable, e.g. if someone wanted to use -aq instead).
>
> Maybe in the install docs we could recommend adding something like 
> this to root's crontab.
>
> James
> _______________________________________________
> boxbackup mailing list
> boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
> http://lists.warhead.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/boxbackup
>