On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:27:10AM -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi.  I have one server that I want the full back to run only on the
> weekend, as it's too intensive to run during regular business hours
> and it takes a day and a half to run.
> 
> Sincere there is no way to schedule a backup, I've tried to schedule
> blackouts for this host for Monday - Friday:
> 
> 
> /etc/BackupPC/pc/swdev01.pl:
> 
> $Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
>     {
>         hourBegin => 0,
>         hourEnd   => 24,
>         weekDays  => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
>     },
> ];
> 
> But last night the backup started!  And it was Tuesday night, which is
> supposed to be blacked out!   What am I doing wrong, please?
> /var/log/BackupPC/LOG:
> 
> 2008-09-23 20:00:02 Started full backup on swdev01 (pid=1096, share=/)

The backup period only takes effect after a certain number of
successful probes of the host. Your log entry shows a level 0 backup,
so I assume the host was just added, and has not yet reached the
threshold of successful probes.

See the documentation on:

  $Conf{BlackoutBadPingLimit}
  $Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt}

in

  http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html


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