You could write a wrapper shell script around rdiff-backup like this to start it:
#!/bin/bash
if [ -n pidof rdiff-backup ] ; then
kill -CONT $(pidof rdiff-backup)
else
rdiff-backup
fi
and then at 6 AM run a cron job with a script like this:
#!/bin/bash
if [ -n pidof rdiff-backup ] ; then
kill -STOP $(pidof rdiff-backup)
fi
The first script sees if rdiff-backup is running, and if it is, it uses
kill to unpause it (if if is already unpaused, this has no effect/error),
otherwise it just fires up rdiff-backup. The second script just sees if
rdiff-backup is running, and if so, pauses it.
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Eric Gendron <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > So how to limit backup working time ?
>
> Limit the area being backed up.
>
> > Or how to interrupt a working backup that will continue next night?
>
> rdiff-backup can't do this.
>
> So
>
> rsync the entire remote system to shadow tree, incrementally when you
> can, and run rdiff-backup locally
>
> or
>
> go learn about bup (not obviously ok to use right now, but I find it
> interesting)
>
>
>
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