Rob Owens writes: > 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.
As Jacob points out you can do that with the "cancel" CGI feature. Even if a backup isn't running, just plug in a number of hours during which no backups will be started for that host. The status at the top of the host summary will show the amount of time remaining. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
