On Apr 17, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Tino Schwarze wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 03:10:13PM -0400, Tony Schreiner wrote:
>> On one of my BackupPC setups, I back a lot of data. On occasion
>> things run for more than 24 hours and I start getting
>>
>> .... Botch on admin job for  admin : already in use!!
>>
>> messages in the log file. I'm guessing that this means that a
>> BackupPC_nightly has been queued when there is already one running.
>>
>> My question is, eventually they all run to completion, but is there
>> any value in queueing one up when another is already running? Does
>> running one after the other make any sense?
>
> Just set $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 2; Or 4 or whatever. That way,
> BackupPC_nightly will do only a part of the pool each run.
>
> Bye,
>
> Tino, having that setting at 4.
>

Sorry, I replied first to Tino; here it is again to the list:


I can do that, yes, But the BackupPC_nightly actually do complete,  
even when 3 or 4 get run in succession.

I'm just wondering if the 2nd and 3rd time BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127  
runs in a row actually does anything.

Tony


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