I considered that, but it's unclear whether BackupPC_nightly or
_updateRefCount might still run.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022, at 8:19 PM, Jon Daley via BackupPC-users wrote:
> Can you simply edit the config BlackoutPeriods value to block out all of
> the time?
>
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2022, Rob Sheldon wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm in a bit of a pickle. I've been migrating my v4 pool to some new
> > infrastructure for ... a while. It's taking much longer than expected, and
> > now I have a request to provide some data from the backup pool for a legal
> > case.
> >
> > While the pool transfer (rsync) was running, I had the backuppc service
> > stopped and disabled. But, it looks like that also prevents me from talking
> > to BPC through its binaries. bin/BackupPC_serverMesg fails explicitly
> > ("Can't connect to server"...) and bin/BackupPC_ls returns empty results.
> >
> > Is there a correct way to turn the backuppc service on again but *ensure*
> > that it doesn't make any changes to the pool? I don't want to stop and
> > restart the rsync because it takes a long time to pick up where it left off
> > (days, at this point).
> >
> > I've crawled through the documentation, web, mailing list, etc., but
> > might've missed something.
> >
> > Absent a recommended way to do this, I might try:
> >
> > - Making most of the binaries non-executable;
> > - Suspending the rsync, `mount -o remount,ro` the pool, and
> > re-foregrounding the rsync;
> > - Clearing the wakeup schedule for all hosts and manually disabling
> > bin/BackupPC_nightly;
> > - ...??
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > /R
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