On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:51:30PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/25/2010 1:29 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > >>>> That's a fantastic idea! I don't even need to do anything > >>>> complicated; just use "lockfile /tmp/backuppc" OSLT, since I > >>>> only care about not overloading single hosts. > >>> > >>> There is a problem with it, though: it can lead to starvation. > >>> I've got one host broken up into 10 or so backuppc jobs, and > >>> one of them has yet to run, 10 days later. Each of the jobs > >>> takes about 6 hours, which means it takes more than a day for > >>> them all to complete, which means 5+ jobs are always available > >>> to run, and that one just hasn't gotten lucky yet. > >>> > >>> Haven't come up with a good solution yet. > >> > >> I always thought the scheduling was ordered by the time since > >> the last backup or time since the backup was due - but I've > >> never gotten far enough behind to tell. Don't the backups that > >> haven't completed the previous day start first? > > > > I don't know, but regardless there are always at least 5 of > > those, is what I'm saying. > > But are they the same 5? If you simply can't transfer the amount > of data you have there's not much it can do but pick up where it > left off when wakes up outside of a blackout again. As long as it > isn't the same jobs being missed repeatedly, it is probably going > to the to it as fast as you would if you adjust the schedule > anyway.
It should take about 4 days to do all the jobs. There's one job that is 10 days old. Therefore I conclude that it's not doing the right thing. :) -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
