Guillermo Rozas wrote at about 21:54:13 -0300 on Monday, October 12, 2020: > > Rather than using cron, would it make sense to define a hash keyed by > > the host that would allow one to specify a desire time or time range > > for backups -- sort of like the inverse of blackouts but settable by > > host. > > > > Also, I would make this more of a "soft" preference in that if a > > backup can't be accomplished at the given preferred time, then a > > backup would be attempted outside of the preferred periods. > > > Isn't exactly this how blackout periods work? The only difference would be > that instead of defining the "forbidden" times, you would define the > "allowed" times? >
The key point would be to do this keyed by host -- so that you could effectively define the times you want each host backed up... vs. the blackout period which defines when you don't want the server doing backups. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
