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Chef cookbook to install duplicity and manage duplicity backup cronjobs
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granular cron config? #38

Closed rmoriz closed 7 years ago

rmoriz commented 8 years ago

Currently backup jobs can only be scheduled using the default intervals (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly). In some cases, when e.g. a backup takes 2 hours but should be done at least 3 times a day, you're currently out of luck.

Given that you already abstract the config files into confdir, how about writing the relevant shell scripts somewhere in a bindir and make the cronjob integration optional?

A user could then use the cron cookbook for an "complex" cron integration, or use another scheduler (systemd… whatever)

chr4 commented 8 years ago

I agree, that this is a good idea. As confdir I'm using the global configuration directories of the distribution, e.g. on Ubuntu /etc/defaults. I assume that placing a shellscript would rather fit into a directory like /usr/local/lib/duplicity/$name or something alike.

Pull requests welcome!

merqlove commented 8 years ago

:+1: