I third this suggestion.

On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:

> Tino Schwarze wrote at about 09:41:46 +0200 on Wednesday, September  
> 2, 2009:
>> IMO the easiest approach would be:
>> - if BackupPC_nightly starts, it acquires a lock, then waits for  
>> backups
>>  to complete
>> - no new backups start until BackupPC_nightly finished
>>
>> This should be rather easy since it could be implemented at the  
>> central
>> scheduling code - actually BackupPC_nightly wouldn't be started, just
>> the flag would be set that it wants to.
>>
>> I would like such automatism (configurable, of course) as well  
>> since it
>> just sucks to guess backup periods and to keep some time reserved for
>> nightly maintenance.
>>
>
> I like this idea and I agree it would be easy to implement.
> And by configurable, I assume you mean at a minimum the ability to
> turn on/off this option.
>
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