Hi,
as you worded: it is not critical. Obviously, it might affect
performance. No curruption in case they run in parallel.
You should schedule it to a time when backups only run rarely. Possibly
not at the same time when most backups start. So for your case with the
blackout period from 6-23 I would prefer to have the BackupPC_nightly
run at 5 (when most backups are done through the night). So your first
entry there should be "5".
I am unsure how the WackeupSchedule and the blackout periods work
together. From my point your current settings do not match each other...
I guess the blackout period overwrites the wakeups...
However, set it to 5 and in most cases there should be no backup in
parallel (as long as your backup windows has enough slots to backup all
scheduled hosts).
/Christian
Am 14.11.25 um 11:35 schrieb Jamie Burchell via BackupPC-users:
Hi
From the way that is worded, it sounds like having BackupPC_nightly
running at the same time as backups is not a critical issue but
possibly undesirable. Maybe due to performance reasons? Or is my data
silently being corrupted? Maybe it would explain why I’m sometimes
getting missing pool files?
I have a blackout period between “6 – 23”, so I have now set my wakeup
schedule to “8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23”.
I’m assuming this is the approach I need to take?
Thanks
Jamie
*From:*Christian Völker via BackupPC-users
<[email protected]>
*Sent:* 14 November 2025 09:38
*To:* [email protected]
*Cc:* Christian Völker <[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] Nightly routine running at the same
time as backups
Hi,
from documentation:
The first entry of $Conf{WakeupSchedule}
<https://backuppc42.knebb.de/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_wakeupschedule_>
is when BackupPC_nightly is run. You might want to re-arrange the
entries in $Conf{WakeupSchedule}
<https://backuppc42.knebb.de/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_wakeupschedule_>
(they don't have to be ascending) so that the first entry is when you
want BackupPC_nightly to run (eg: when you don't expect a lot of
regular backups to run).
So there is your solution...
Greetings
/Christian
Am 14.11.25 um 08:25 schrieb Jamie Burchell via BackupPC-users:
Hi all
According to the status page at 01:00, the two nightly jobs ran at
the same time as a handful of backups. Is it safe/normal for the
nightly routine to run at the same time as backups?
Thanks in advance
Jamie
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