Re: [BackupPC-users] Automatically stopping running backups during business hours

2009-07-23 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Hi Filipe I implemented your script and am running it at 7am each day. Works like a charm! Thank you once again to you and all others who contributed to this thread. Now to document it the setup so I don't forget about it all! Langdon --

Re: [BackupPC-users] Automatically stopping running backups during business hours

2009-07-23 Thread Langdon Stevenson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you to all who replied. Sorry for my delay, but things got crazy with work over the last two weeks and this little problem has been on hold. The shell script looks like a good solution. I will set it up and see how it goes. Thanks again for t

[BackupPC-users] Automatically stopping running backups during business hours

2009-07-11 Thread Langdon Stevenson
I have a number of servers at remote sites that get backed up over ADSL connections. Usually the backups run in an hour or two outside of business hours which is fine. However occasionally a user will add a large number of files to a server, causing the backup to take much longer. This causes a

[BackupPC-users] Limit duration of backup sessions

2008-05-25 Thread Langdon Stevenson
Is there a way to limit the maximum time that a backup can run for? I am almost certain that I can remember seeing this mentioned somewhere, but can't find it in the documentation. I have a couple of off-site servers connected via OpenVPN tunnels over ADSL links that can (when a user dumps a l