On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 07:43, Pavel Hofman <pavel.hofman AT ivitera DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> Luis Paulo napsal(a):
>> 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.
>
> Luis,
>
> Thanks a lot for your help. Setting this option for all clients (i.e. in
> the main config) is perfect, but is there a way to tell backuppc (while
> running a backup job) to reload its configuration (re-read the config
> files) so that next backup jobs already reflect the changed
> configuration? In my experience I always had to restart backuppc.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Pavel.
>

You're probably right, but I'm not sure you need to reload/restart
backuppc (mostly if you change clients .pl).
Any way, I found this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
net/msg19741.html

I'm afraid it will be at your own risk.
Regards
Luis

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