Hi,

Adam Goryachev wrote on 2009-08-13 15:42:26 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
100,000+ errors in last nights backup]:
> [...]
> I've frequently managed to cause two backuppc_dump's to run in parallel
> where one was scheduled by backuppc and one was run manually by me from
> the command line. It would be nice if backuppc_dump could do a simple
> check to see if the new directory already exists, and if so, simple exit
> (or error and exit).

while a check would be possible, it's not quite as simple as that. What
happens when the machine crashes during running backups? The new/ directory
won't disappear by itself (well, BackupPC could move all new/ directories to
trash on startup, but, according to your logic, you might just be running
BackupPC_dump manually ...). File locking? Put up a big sign "don't run
BackupPC_dump manually unless you know what you are doing"? ;-)

> Mainly I run backups manually so I can see exactly what is happening
> during the backup and where/why it is failing or taking so long.

Maybe there should/could be a way to serverMesg BackupPC to do a backup for a
specific host with a -v switch and verbose logging directed to a specific file
(i.e. make BackupPC_dump -v take a file name argument and pass that over via
the BackupPC daemon). Please remind me in about two weeks ;-).

Regards,
Holger

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