[Feature Request] Cronjob when device turned off

[newhinton]

When a device is turned off, or sleeping, no snapshot is being made. It would be great if a snapshot was missed during off-time, it would be started as soon as possible.

[newhinton]

I wrote a small script that can be run every x minutes that archieves this:

https://gist.github.com/newhinton/e67a2f95e281e82f57a4784b6986ed27 When using it, please check the comments and adjust accordingly

[daveTheOldCoder]

I have backintime scheduled to run every hour. As long as I'm using my computer for more than an hour at a time, that gives me adequate snapshots.

[Hoimar]

If you select "Recurring (anacron)" (or whatever the translation is) and select "Every: 1 hour" in the schedule, won't that do exactly the same?

In the docs you can read that this runs a cronjob every 15mins which will check if a new snapshot has to be triggered (or every 60mins if you select "weekly").

[ayoungethan]

If you select "Recurring (anacron)" (or whatever the translation is) and select "Every: 1 hour" in the schedule, won't that do exactly the same?

That's what I thought, but I opened https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1228 because it doesn't seem to be successfully checking whether it should actually run, it just runs and completes a backup every 15 minutes for some reason.

[emtiu]

Hi, I'm closing this issue because the requested feature exists. There are indeed bug reports on it, like #1068 and #1228. We're looking at possible problems there :)