Re: Running BackupPC_nightly only after queued backups are complete

Scott Hanson writes:

> 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.

Looks good.  I'm tempted to make this the default behavior.

However, the risk is that BackupPC_nightly might never get to run.

Maybe I should implement some hybrid where it starts blocking new
jobs if BackupPC_nightly has been queued for more than say 48 hours?

Craig


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