Could you please explain the idea behind this proposal?
Am 2024-07-12 11:53, schrieb Barry Scott:
On 12 Jul 2024, at 09:50, t.schnei...@disroot.org wrote:
There's no script (or whatsoever) in this backup functionality.
It's only rsnapshot [1] (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rsnapshot)
and systemd-timer [2] involved.
You can change the ExecStart= to use flock, see man flock for details.
Off the top of my head something like:
ExecStart=flock --exclusive mylock rsnapshot
Add in full paths to make it robust.
Barry
Am 2024-07-12 10:35, schrieb Barry Scott:
On 12 Jul 2024, at 08:34, t.schnei...@disroot.org wrote:
Setting the time of day requires detailed knowledge about the runtime
of each job.
But this forecast is not accurate and this means any setting could
result in same error.
Agreed that is a problem with this approach.
Or you have the code that locks wait for the lock to be freed does that
help?
Are you using flock in the script, then its a easy change.
You still cannot ensure the order, but you can ensure that they will
all run sequentially.
Personally I encode the rules for my incremental vs. full backup into
my hourly backups script.
So I only have one timer.
Barry
Links:
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[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rsnapshot
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Timers
