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Hello,

I am running BackupPC and it works great. I have only one question; is
it possible to configure when the nightly will be started? I know the
name suggests that it should be started at night, but in my
configuration all backups start at 23:00 and will take several hours.
The nightly jobs slows it down a lot.

I have killed the nightly job several times and restarted it manually
after the backups are made and then everything (backups+nightly) is
finished much earlier.

If there is no configuration option, is it possible to somehow disable
the nightly, so I can start it from cron?

Best regards,
Dick Tump.

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On 12/13 07:22 , Dick Tump (Shock Media) wrote:
I am running BackupPC and it works great. I have only one question; is
it possible to configure when the nightly will be started?

Yep. Laid out in config.pl.
Here's one of mine, where I have it set to run the 'nightly' job at 3pm.
I suggest that this would in fact be a better default than the current
default of 1am; since backup jobs will more commonly run at 1am than in the
afternoon. (If there are still backup jobs running in the morning, we
want them to be running on a lightly loaded server so they complete
quickly).

# The first entry of $Conf{WakeupSchedule} is when BackupPC_nightly is run.
# You might want to re-arrange the entries in $Conf{WakeupSchedule}
# (they don't have to be ascending) so that the first entry is when
# you want BackupPC_nightly to run (eg: when you don't expect a lot
# of regular backups to run).
#
$Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [15..24,1..14];


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"Dick Tump (Shock Media)" <dick < at > shockmedia.nl> wrote on 12/13/2011 01:22:49 PM:

I am running BackupPC and it works great. I have only one question; is
it possible to configure when the nightly will be started?

The first entry in your WakeupSchedule determines this. So, for example, mine is something like:

"10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

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On 13.12.2011 19:55, Timothy J Massey wrote:
"Dick Tump (Shock Media)" wrote on 12/13/2011 01:22:49 PM:

I am running BackupPC and it works great. I have only one
question; is
it possible to configure when the nightly will be started?

The first entry in your WakeupSchedule determines this. So, for
example, mine is something like:

"10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

Thanks. I found that option in the configuration and I have already
tried it, but sometimes it will still start backups at 10 then. I would
like to see the nightly job running exclusively, so without any backup
tasks running.

I have done some more thinking about this and I have possibly fixed
this with a blackout period at the time of the first entry in the
WakeupSchedule, combined with Blackout Good Count of zero. I'm not sure
if it will work, but I'll probably know in a day I don't use the
blackout period for other things, so for me this might be a fix.

Best regards,
Dick Tump.

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On 12/13 11:28 , Dick Tump (Shock Media) wrote:
Thanks. I found that option in the configuration and I have already
tried it, but sometimes it will still start backups at 10 then. I would
like to see the nightly job running exclusively, so without any backup
tasks running.

The default blackout in config.pl should look like this:

$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
{
hourBegin => 7.0,
hourEnd => 19.5,
weekDays => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
},
];


This should keep jobs from starting any later than 6am. (unless you start
them by hand or with a cron job). So if you do your BackupPC_nightly run at
15:00, all but the longest-running jobs should have finished.

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