Anand Gupta wrote:

> I was trying to restrict backuppc to start / backup 2 hosts while 1  
> is in progress. Reading and search i came across something called "  
> semaphore" and the idea that it can be implemented using the  
> DumpPreUserCmd and DumpPostUserCmd. Can anyone please help on how  
> this can actually be implemented.
>
> Basically these hosts are different drives on the same machine and i  
> don't want 2 drives to be backed up at the same time. (trying to  
> setup and use volume shadow hence need to backup a single drive at a  
> time).

The post on the idea of semaphores with BackupPC has some info: 
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
net/msg13698.html

Nils Breunese.

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