[enhancement] Possibility to select manual frequency for every x hours

[Bart de Koning]

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.

[Richard Bailey (rmjb)]

We are working on choosing the hour of daily or greater backup. Will this help your issue?

[Cyberdude (gabor-sunseaker)]

This will help to some point where for a specific backup profile I'd choose the hour of the day for backups that don't need a higher frequency..

But for me I have many large files changing frequently during the day so I need frequent backups during the day. The hourly backup was fine but now sometimes it can take up to 40mins to complete which makes my system a little sluggish during that time. It would be useful if I could perform the backup every two or three hours for example.

If a user definable frequency is too complicated to implement then perhaps an additional predefined option could be provided. E.G. hourly, every 2 hours, every 4 hours, daily, monthly, etc.

[Richard Bailey (rmjb)]

backintime uses cron so you can always edit your crontab to customise
the scheduling.
There is a bug in the current release called "Overzealous removal of
crontab entries" which will knock out your custom cron lines, but a
fix for that is coming in the next release.

As for having more hourly options, this will need further discussion.

On 11/10/09, Cyberdude <email address hidden> wrote:
> This will help to some point where for a specific backup profile I'd
> choose the hour of the day for backups that don't need a higher
> frequency..
>
> But for me I have many large files changing frequently during the day so
> I need frequent backups during the day. The hourly backup was fine but
> now sometimes it can take up to 40mins to complete which makes my system
> a little sluggish during that time. It would be useful if I could
> perform the backup every two or three hours for example.
>
> If a user definable frequency is too complicated to implement then
> perhaps an additional predefined option could be provided. E.G. hourly,
> every 2 hours, every 4 hours, daily, monthly, etc.
>
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> [enhancement] Possibility to select manual frequency for every x hours
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479178
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[splashis (splashote)]

I'd like to extend the feature request: An option to set a number of minutes in the schedule would be nice. I'm using the beta right now and I'm missing the 30min option.