Tony writes:

> 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?

Yes, this is a bug - it should skip queuing the next
BackupPC_nightly if one is running.

As Tino points out you can get BackupPC_nightly to take
less time each night.

Craig

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