> 2)let backuppc process all backups.  should automatically happen due to the
> wakeup schedule though I would shorten that period.

I was thinking every 15 min or so.

> 3)run a script to determine if backuppc is doing a backup, if so then sleep
> for your wakeup schedule + 1 minute, if not then execute backuppc nightly

Nice suggestion for wakeup + 1 min. This alleviates concerns regarding
race conditions and the machine turning off then on again and perhaps
missing a backup or killing one that was in progress. I grabbed some
states from my existing BackupPC setup and it looks like I'll be
checking the "activeJob" field.

> 4)trigger a shutdown when backuppc nightly completes.

This probably makes more sense than triggering the nightly first.

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