Running BackupPC_nightly only after queued backups are complete

Normally, when the BackupPC_nightly command is queued, no new backups 
are started until the command has been completed. For my setup that is 
rather inconvenient. I run a weekly full backup of some 30 servers 
($Conf{MaxBackups} = 6) starting Friday evening that takes 36 hours to 
complete. With the default behavior, the queue is interrupted twice when 
BackupPC_nightly waits for all current jobs to complete. That adds 
several hours to the total backup time, meaning the backup might not be 
done until Monday morning.

So I made a slight modification so that new backups are held only when 
BackupPC_nightly is actually running, not when BackupPC_nightly is 
merely waiting to be run. Here's a patch, in case anyone is interested.

--- BackupPC.orig       2004-08-20 12:21:11.000000000 +0200
+++ BackupPC    2004-08-24 08:35:07.659440325 +0200
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@
 sub Main_TryToRun_Bg_or_User_Queue
 {
     my($req, $host);
-    while ( $RunNightlyWhenIdle == 0 ) {
+    while ( $BackupPCNightlyLock == 0 ) {
         local(*FH);
         my(@args, @deferUserQueue, @deferBgQueue, $progName, $type);
         my $nJobs = keys(%Jobs);

--
Scott Hanson               Network Services
Netlife GmbH               Phone:  +49 40 28415 0
Millerntorplatz 1          Fax:    +49 40 28415 999
20359 Hamburg, Germany     http://www.netlife.de


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