While trying to figure out why the server is losing space I decided One of 3 machines to stop File backups. I enter 0 for min and 0 for max file incremental counts. I starting getting Incremental backups every 5 minutes after changing to those settings. So then I removed the paths I had wanted to backup and that seems to have stopped incremental backups from that machine as expected.
Why didn’t you just turn off file backups?
I do not see that option on the client ? I am using ver 1.4.14. I am most curious as to why incrementals started every 5 minutes with 0 and 0 settings
I am confused I thought removing backup directories stopped the incremental backup every 5 minutes I was wrong started again. SO how do you turn of file backups? on this machine only ?
While setting that option to 0 on both should stop it, it is better to do what @john3354 said and just disable your backups.
While in your web-interface, if you go into your Settings ribbon tab, you will find - at the top of the screen - [General | Mail | Users] [DropDown Box]
- Click open the DropDown Box
- Select the machine you want to edit
- Go into your File Backup ribbon tab in the middle section of the page.
- Next to both of your File Full and File Incremental Backups should be a check-box to disable the backups from occuring. (This applies for Images too, but must be specified in the Image Backup ribbon tab)
I do not know why setting that feature to [0] on each setting made it start an incremental every 5 minutes; maybe that is something that you should look at in your settings to see if you accidentally set your backup time to [0.084] - I don’t think it liked anything but whole numbers, but you never know.
If you cannot figure out the 5 minute thing, once you return everything to normal, you may want to get @uroni’s attention towards this.
My guess is that setting it to zero short circuited the wait logic causing it to just constantly run. @uroni could answer better. I am not even sure where all of that is at in the code.
Ok I see if I go to server how to stop file backups. I was refering to Client settings, I changed the interval for File backup to 0 which I believe triggered the once every 5 minute backup. I apparently incorrectly thought that the client had the option to stop backups from the client interface.
So again I changed the client setting Interval for incremental file backup to 0 ( put back to 24 hours)
I also changed Min and Max of incremental to 0 thinking nothing would be done. I also removed all paths to backup thinking also if there is no backup target it would just exit.
Sadly, it’s a server-side only thing.
Well, setting your backup timer to 24 (from 0) hours at least unraveled that other mystery.
I also think that there is no way to necessarily remove the backup path - easily - once there is one in the box. I mean, another thing that I can think of to stop backups on a client is to make the path backup an empty directory.
Like: C:\FalseDirectory
and the FalseDirectory
would have nothing in it, or at the very least a 1KB file.
Edit: Alternatively, does setting your backup intervals to (-1) prevent backups, or does it just reject the input because it is a negative number?
Of just kill and disable the client service. Or, uninstall.
I still want image backups. And I did set interval from 24 hours to -1 and it took it. I have it email on file backups after 40 minutes no email. I also took your advise and created empty folder trammell.
I believe images contain full disk ( minus DRM crap). For this machine I am working with only changes are from windows updates as TV recordings are not backed up ( DRM) Yes I know how to fix that if I wanted to.