Forcing a Full Backup with sbackup

[sktsee]

On 08/21/2011 02:53 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I use sbackup manual backup only for backing up my systems. I need to
> force a full backup to be done for one of my systems. I deleted all
> backups for it on the device that stores my backups; started sbackup and
> discovered that I only had and incremental backup ad a result.
>
> How can I force a full backup to be performed? The doumentation I have
> seems to be lacking that information.
>
> Thanks,
> Jay

If I go into sbackup-config-gtk and choose run manual backup now from 
the Tools menu, it presents a confirmation popup that has a checkbox to 
make a full backup. This is using the sbackup Maverick version from a 
ppa, though. Alternatively, I think you can set the amount of days 
between full backups to 0 and it should do a full backup every time 
sbackup launches.

Here's the ppa if you are using Maverick or earlier:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team/+archive/ppa

You may also want to post your question here: 
https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup if the suggestions above don't 
work for you.

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sktsee