Eric Gendron <[email protected]> writes: > I would like to know 2 things... > > How to limit hours of the backup. I would like to limit backup operations > between 23h30 and 6h00am to not slow down the daytime bandwidth. > > Can I just kill the process (cron job) at 6h00am ?
You can, but the next one will start regressing and then start over, so this is really not going to be a useful outcome. > Also, I think if the job isn't finished 24hours later, a second > rdiff-backup job will start... Is there a protection to avoid that? Is > running 2 rdiff-backup on the same datas (source and destination) could be > a problem? That's really a question of writing scripts around rdiff-backup instead. But if your backups don't complete in less than half of your interval, your situation really isn't going to work anyway. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
