Monthly Backup Trigger

[HouseOfCards 95]

In the Emby "Backup & Restore" schedule, there is no option to trigger a backup to run "Monthly", which would be very useful...

[GrimReaper 4739]

Personally, I find that to be a bit excessive - but to each their own. You could also copy a daily/weekly backup (or write a script) to some outside folder on a monthly basis, hence effectively having a "monthly" backup of your own. 

[HouseOfCards 95]

2 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

Personally, I find that to be a bit excessive - but to each their own. You could also copy a daily/weekly backup (or write a script) to some outside folder on a monthly basis, hence effectively having a "monthly" backup of your own. 

Well, that is sort of the issue.  I have an offsite backup that backs up the Emby backups offsite.  I'd like to keep a few versions to revert back to, and because the shortest version I can schedule on the Emby side is weekly, my monthly backup has to copy four backups instead of just one.  I'm sure there are ways to change my whole thought on this, but performing a monthly backup should be an option, IMO.

Essentially, the only way to be able to revert to a month ago in Emby, is to keep four weekly backups, instead of one monthly.

I was considering setting it to backup on each server restart, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice about the performance impact of that?  I have two servers running in docker containers, so basically, if I reboot my NAS, it's going to trigger two backups to start at the same time.  And multiple quick NAS reboots can become problematic to backing up that way.  I'd prefer backups to happen overnight like they do now, when nobody is using the servers.