Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 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?

What it needs is to be on when the other PC is available for a backup 
and for some time at midnight when it cleans up expired items from the 
pool.  When I said you could schedule it with cron I guess I was 
thinking you wouldn't be up all night removing and connecting the 
external drive so you'd have a long 'on' cycle while you sleep.  But, 
that could be a problem if either PC is turned off at night.  The other 
thing that hasn't been mentioned is that both the target and server are 
fairly busy while the backups run so backups are usually scheduled for 
times when people aren't working when possible.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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