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| Jeffrey A. Schmidt - SysAdmin, PPD/CDF Online |
| Fermi National Accelerator Lab |
| Batavia, IL USA |
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Chris Marble wrote:
> Jeffery Smith wrote:
> >
> > Can any one tell me if there is a way to set a stop time for backups? I
> > am not thrilled about this idea, but some of my backups do run a bit
> > long and I am getting complaints some mornings when there are many level
> > 0 dumps.
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> No way that I can think of. You could start backups earlier. You
> could increase maxdumps. You could lengthen your dumpcycle so Amanda won't
> have to fit as many level 0s on a tape.
> Would you really want unfinished backups to abort? You could do that
> with some kill commands in cron.
not a good idea, but:
su - <amanda_user> -c "kill -9 -1"
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