On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:19, Pavel Hofman <pavel.hofman AT ivitera DOT com> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to tell backuppc to finish the currently running backup
> jobs and not to start new ones? We mirror backuppc partitions to
> external drives via SW RAID and need to stop backuppc and umount the
> filesystem to keep the data. I do not want to interrupt the long-running
> backups but before they finish, backuppc starts new ones and the process
> of backing-up to the external drives cannot be properly finished even
> though the raid finished synchronization many ours/days ago.
>
> Thanks a lot for suggestions.
>
> Pavel.

Setting $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 2; for all clients won't do what you want?

See 
http://your_server/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#item__conf_backupsdisable_

With web gui select for each client -> Edit Config -> Schedule -> On
blackouts set BackupsDisable to 2.

Regards
Luis

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