Jacob wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:38:10 -0400 > Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >> >>> It would also be nice at times to be able to one-time-schedule the next >>> backup of a particular host to be a full backup (for instance, if you knew >>> that you'd just added some data). The way to do this right now is: >>> - Start the backup right now while you're thinking of it, and hope you don't >>> irritate people too much by doing a backup in the middle of the day (or >>> whatever other time it is). >>> - Try to remember to start the backup later on, when it won't irritate >>> people. >>> - Set up a cron or at job to schedule the backup. >>> >>> It would be nice to be able to schedule future jobs from within the web >>> interface tho. Perhaps have it call 'at', or else use some sort of internal >>> persistence mechanism? >>> >>> >> It would also be nice to be able to tell the server "don't back up this >> host tonight". Some of my users run cpu-intensive jobs overnight, which >> need to be complete by the next morning, and which would get slowed down >> by a backup occurring right in the middle of it. >> > > This actually can be done already, I believe. Click the "Stop/Deque Backups" > button on your host's admin page, and that'll not only stop any > currently-running backups, but won't allow any to be run for the time > specified. > You may be right. I've tried clicking that while there was no backup happening, but interpreted this response as an error: "ok: no backup was pending or running" (I didn't notice the 'ok' in the front before). I'm testing it now by telling it not to back up for another 24 hours.
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