Ho! So how to limit backup working time ?
Or how to interrupt a working backup that will continue next night? On Aug 15, 2013 12:29 PM, "Greg Troxel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
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