Hi Rich,
Yes - I had:
$Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [2];
but that didn't help. I also had to do:
$Conf{TrashCleanSleepSec} = 86400;
It seems if you don't do this, backuppc wakes up every 5 minutes between
each check of the trash directory.
This still means my hd's are spun up twice a day, not once, as I can't
control when backuppc starts counting the 86400 seconds between trash check
wake ups. But that's still better than my disks never spinning down (or
worse still, spinning up and down every 5 minutes).
Cheers,
Alex
> Alex Zelter wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am running backuppc version 3.0.0-3ubu on Ubuntu gutsy. Ubuntu puts
> > backuppc's backups in /var/lib/backuppc. I have this linked to /backup
> > which is on an external hard drive. This hard drive is set to spin
> > down after 30 minutes of inactivity. backuppc is set to wake up once
> > each night at 2 am to do its backups. It is only backing up the
> > localhost to the external hard drive. My problem is that while
> > backuppc is running, the external hard drive never spins down. [...]
>
> I had a similar problem, but was able to solve it with the following in
> the config.pl
>
> $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [
> '0',
> '12'
> ];
>
> to only wake up at midnight and noon. It sounds like you've already
> done something similar? How did you set yours to wake up only at 2am?
>
> Maybe use "sar -d" to see if anything is reading/writing to that disk?
> You can use fuser -cv /foo to see what exact processes have files/dirs
> open in that filesystem as well.
>
> Rich
>
>
>
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