Les Mikesell wrote at about 10:39:14 -0500 on Wednesday, July 8, 2009:
 > Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
 > >
 > >> $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = ...
 > >> The default configuration causes BackupPC to run the BackupPC_nightly job
 > >> when there are backup jobs which may need to run during the night...
 > >> Comments, anyone?
 > > 
 > > Yes, I would suggest decoupling the start time for the
 > > BackupPC_nightly job from the obscure setting of being the first hour
 > > on which WakeupSchedule is set to.
 > > 
 > > I believe it would be much more clear if there was a separate
 > > NightlyWakeupSchedule or such setting that would specify at which time
 > > that process would start running. BackupPC would wake up on either
 > > WakeupSchedule or NightlyWakeupSchedule, and then would decide if it
 > > would run backups or BackupPC_nightly (or both) based on that hour
 > > being on the first, second, or both variables. In that case, it would
 > > also be much easier to set a sensible default time for
 > > BackupPC_nightly to run.
 > > 
 > > 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.
 > 
 > -- 

I'm warming to the name change to BackupPC_daily since 'daily' most
generically implies once a day whereas 'nightly' would imply during
the nighttime.

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