Keith Edmunds wrote: > Backing up multiple systems to one server. If one of the clients has had a > large amount of data added such that the backup takes a long time, > BackupPC_nightly doesn't run as it's waiting for the backup to finish. As > a consequence of that, no further backups will run (they just queue). This > is only a problem if the 'slow' backup takes more than 24 hours, but I've > seen that situation a few times. > > Other than aborting the slow backup, is there anything that can be done to > allow all the other clients to backup each day? > I only take backups of servers, which sometimes take 8 days (slow links, huge data amounts). This results in a bunch of BackupPC processes which are defunct, but after the backups finish (once in 2 weeks), the BackupPC_nightly runs.
Normally, a single backup does not lock your system for other backups, as long as you didn't set $MaxBackups and $MaxUserBackups to 1 (I have them set to 25 and 4). Can you post your config.pl? Or summarize the content of the 'Server' tab of the config in the web interface. -- Toni Van Remortel Linux System Engineer @ Precision Operations NV +32 3 452 92 26 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
