Comment 7 for bug 412470

You can not simulate a cronjob otherwise than you already did, but you can
start a manual backup by executing backintime -b
Scheduled folders do not necessary have to be disjoint of eachother: it will
make always a copy of the whole snapshot folder (so it will copy + hardlink
both) but it will update the folder (and subfolders) of the one that is
scheduled, if you include a folder that is already included it will not run
the folder twice or something. backintime - b will update both btw.
If it says that there is nothing to do, you can always make a little test
file or something, than it will notice that something has changed...

Cheers,
Bart

2009/8/27 Borph <email address hidden>

> Bart,
>
> I use Kubuntu 9.04 and a ext4 root partition and a 1TB sized external
> (USB) drive with ext4, encrypted with LUKS (if that matters).
>
> But don't worry reproducing this bug, like I mentioned under 'answers' I
> have to check my configuration, but had no time to experiment so far.
>
> I should be sure, that each scheduled folder is disjoint of each other, for
> example this is not:
> /home: weekly
> /home/peter/documents: hourly
>
> I will test again. Can I simulate a cronjob? backintime --backup-job did
> nothing if the last snapshot was done just recently.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
> --
> hardlinking doesnt work from cronjob with schedule per included folder
> enabled
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412470
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