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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