> That would be fairly hard to predict if you have more than a few machines > because it will be your concurrency limit that keeps backups from > starting - and > you'd need to know how long the previous backups will take to know when > the next > can start.
This is something that can be computed automagically by BackupPC to estimate (albiet not exact). > You can see from the host summary page how long it has been since the last > run, > so if you are on an approximately daily schedule you can tell when the > next will > be considered and run if not blocked by the concurrency limit or the > blackout > schedule. If you need more precise scheduling, you can use a cron job > using > BackupPC_serverMesg to start specific machines - but you'll also need to > make > sure that there are not too many other jobs running at the time. Right, I could follow a trend that would be based off of current configuration -- but so could BackupPC. My issue really revolves around the changing of the configuration in which it should tell (based on previous thesholds, run times, # of files, etc) an approximate date/time. Even if the BackupPC reads: "With the current configuration, BackupPC will attempt to backup the server @ yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm. This can be affected by # of concurrent, <other limitations and factors>..." If it's a matter of any mathmatical computation -- BackupPC can do this automatically with the understanding that it is an estimate based on previous tends (if any). Right? //Clint ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikes...@gmail.com> To: "General list for user discussion,questions and support" <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature Requests and such? > Clint Alexander wrote: >> >> 1) I want to see *when* a backup is going to run. I've been making >> changes to the overall schedule of the system, but it seems like all the >> backups run in the last hour of the non-blackout times. > > That would be fairly hard to predict if you have more than a few machines > because it will be your concurrency limit that keeps backups from > starting - and > you'd need to know how long the previous backups will take to know when > the next > can start. > >> I have 4 >> particular servers (SQL Cluster Nodes) that need to be backed up within >> the same hour. I setup the blackout of these particular servers FROM 4am >> TO 3am in hopes to get them done between 3-4am. But only one of them was >> fired within that hour, the rest 2 hours later. So -- we should be able >> to see what our current settings will do and when it will do it. I'm >> sure there is a configuration that would work for this that I can't >> figure out -- but it doesn't make the feature any less important :) > > You can see from the host summary page how long it has been since the last > run, > so if you are on an approximately daily schedule you can tell when the > next will > be considered and run if not blocked by the concurrency limit or the > blackout > schedule. If you need more precise scheduling, you can use a cron job > using > BackupPC_serverMesg to start specific machines - but you'll also need to > make > sure that there are not too many other jobs running at the time. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
