Holger Parplies wrote:
> you *could* use the DumpPostUserCmd to send a serverMesg to shutdown BackupPC,
> but I wouldn't recommend that for two reasons:
> 
> 1.) BackupPC_link needs to run after a backup, so you'd have to delay the
>     shutdown for a short but unknown time ('at now + 5 minutes' ?).
> 
> 2.) BackupPC_nightly needs to run on a regular basis if you want backup
>     expiry to work correctly (i.e. actually free any space) and the statistics
>     to say anything meaningful.


How about if I setup additional cron jobs to run BackupPC_link 
regularly? (e.g. run BackupPC on even-number hours and BackupPC_link on 
odd-number hours). Similarly, could I setup another cron job to run 
BackupPC_nightly every night?


Daniel.

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