On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:39, Les Mikesell<lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> Also, as an aside, the process should probably be renamed to
>> BackupPC_daily, as it makes more sense to run it during the day when
>> backups are not running. Isn't that right?
>
> I'm not sure you can make a general assumption about when backups are
> run. Most places would catch machines that are on all the time at night
> but there may also be a lot of desktop machines that are either started
> manually through the web interface or caught outside of the blackout
> time because they aren't available at night.
Agreed, however some default has to be provided and the current one
(1am) may not be the best possible one.
As you said yourself in another thread, even though BackupPC_nightly
can be run while other backups are running, it is better to do so
while no or few backups are running so that they do not compete for
disk I/O and there is also the locking overhead of both potentially
accessing the same files (don't know exactly how that works, but just
disk I/O is enough reason to do it while other backups are not
running).
I agree with the OP that 8am would be more sensible considering it is
inside the default blackout period (when most heavy backups should be
finished and less backups should be running). Someone who uses a
different setup (backups during the day, at noon, etc.) will have to
customize these settings anyway, so they can also choose the best time
for BackupPC_nightly at that time.
The suggestion on the name change is that "nightly" implies it should
be run during the night, when in fact what you want is to run it once
a day, at the time that is more convenient for you.
Thanks,
Filipe
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