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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc performing 2 backups a night

2010-06-01 12:13:42
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc performing 2 backups a night
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:11:30 -0500
On 6/1/2010 10:32 AM, plight wrote:
>
> I have 5 test hosts configured and my post dump scripts run perfectly.  So it 
> is in fact backing up the data.
>
> My problem is it runs twice.  It will run once at 1am and then again at 2am.  
> I cant for the life of me figure out why it is doing this.  Am I missing a 
> setting?
>
> The did reroute ping to /bin/true so my postdump script would run even if 
> ping was down.  Could this be causing it?

Ping should normally succeed anyway, so that shouldn't change things. 
You should only get a backup if $Conf{IncrPeriod} has passed since the 
last one completed.  I'm not sure when it considers a run completed - 
maybe your postdump script is still running at that point.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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