I tend to do this on my installations, because it makes sense for my
environments.

In config.pl I put:

# set the wakeups to 'start' at 8am,
# so BackupPC_nightly will start doing maintenance 
# when the main blackout period starts
$Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [8..24,1..7];

Since the default blackouts start at 7am, this setting would seem to be a
reasonable way to make the nightly maintenance job run at a time when
no backup needs to run. 

The default configuration causes BackupPC to run the BackupPC_nightly job
when there are backup jobs which may need to run during the night. Many of
us have trouble getting all the backups done in the time allotted; it would
seem to make sense to use that time most efficiently.

Comments, anyone?
Have things changed in such a way that this is not relevant anymore? (I
started doing this with Backuppc 2.1.0, the first version I used).
Downsides to doing this?

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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