Alessandro Ferrari wrote: > Yes, It is a stupid question... such as my client's stupid question.... > Sorry!!! > > Therefore, is it possible? > > > Yes its possible.
two ways. 1. DumpPostUserCmd (with a suitable script or command, but you'll likely need sudo to help out) 2. run a cron job to shutdown backuppc at a specified time. if you know how long a backup should take then you can schedule accordingly. also you can use DumpPostUserCmd to say touch a file when its finished. In turn you have a separate script which polls for that file, if it finds it it issues the shutdwon command and removes the file. But then how do you know when to start it back up? WakeUp schedules and blackout periods should enable you to only do backups at specified times and always have backuppc running. So i guess the real question should be what do you want to achieve? As another example here's what i do in some cases..... backuppc is on a removable drive that gets rotated weekly. i modified the init script to mount the drive before starting backuppc and unmount after stopping backuppc. i also stopped any automounting from occurring. a cronjob runs at 7am to stop backuppc and unmount the drive. a cronjob runs at 7pm to mount the drive and start backuppc Why? because i only want backups to occur after hours. I know they will only take at most a few hours. And it gives the ordinary end user an easy way to remove the drives during the day when they want to swap them over for rotation. they simply power off the drive, unplug it and put the new one in and switch it on. At 7pm backuppc starts, mounting the new drive and normally kicks off a backup at 8pm, or the next WakeUp schedule. Hope that helps, Regards, Les ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
