Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-host $Conf{MaxBackups} effects

2021-03-13 Thread backuppc
Dave Sherohman wrote at about 10:54:55 +0100 on Friday, March 12, 2021: > On 3/11/21 4:49 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On 3/11/21 4:36 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > >> Look at the code that I recently submitted to the group to streamline > >> creation/deletion of shadow backups. > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-host $Conf{MaxBackups} effects

2021-03-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On 3/11/21 4:49 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On 3/11/21 4:36 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Look at the code that I recently submitted to the group to streamline creation/deletion of shadow backups. I saved those posts, but, honestly, I don't see the advantage of using a large script for the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-host $Conf{MaxBackups} effects

2021-03-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On 3/11/21 4:40 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Sounds like the shadow creation script or your implementation of it is broken. The precmd script fails to create the shadow volume when it is run from the backuppc user account on the backup server, but works when it's run from just about any

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-host $Conf{MaxBackups} effects

2021-03-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On 3/11/21 4:36 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: I don't see how this would make sense at a per-host level. And any behavior to have it differ by host is undocumented and not necessarily predictable. That's why I asked - I can't predict what it would do if it were allowed.  :D Look at the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-host $Conf{MaxBackups} effects

2021-03-11 Thread backuppc
Dave Sherohman wrote at about 15:14:01 +0100 on Thursday, March 11, 2021: > I'm just the linux admin around here, but the windows admin is working > on it.  At this point, I'm mostly just looking for a workaround for > until he figures it out.  Plan B for dealing with it is to reduce the >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-host $Conf{MaxBackups} effects

2021-03-11 Thread backuppc
Dave Sherohman wrote at about 14:03:05 +0100 on Thursday, March 11, 2021: > If I were to set $Conf{MaxBackups} = 1 for one specific host, how would > that be handled?  Would it prevent that specific host from running > backups unless there are no other backups in progress? Would it prevent

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-host $Conf{MaxBackups} effects

2021-03-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm just the linux admin around here, but the windows admin is working on it.  At this point, I'm mostly just looking for a workaround for until he figures it out.  Plan B for dealing with it is to reduce the backup frequency for the windows machines and run some manually to spread them out so

Re: [BackupPC-users] Per-host $Conf{MaxBackups} effects

2021-03-11 Thread Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users
On 12/3/21 00:03, Dave Sherohman wrote: If I were to set $Conf{MaxBackups} = 1 for one specific host, how would that be handled?  Would it prevent that specific host from running backups unless there are no other backups in progress?  Would it prevent any other backups from being started

[BackupPC-users] Per-host $Conf{MaxBackups} effects

2021-03-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
If I were to set $Conf{MaxBackups} = 1 for one specific host, how would that be handled?  Would it prevent that specific host from running backups unless there are no other backups in progress? Would it prevent any other backups from being started before that host finished?  Would it do both?