Steve wrote at about 12:02:32 -0400 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009:
> Is there a parameter that sets priority of once backup over another,
> or do all the BackupPC_dump processes start at the same level? Maybe
> that would be a $Conf that could be added...
> evets
That sounds like an interesting suggestion.
But for your purposes where it seems like you want to de-prioritize
all dumps relative to BackupPC_nightly, maybe just alias the relevant
commands in _InstallDir/bin to include the nice.
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Jeffrey J.
> Kosowsky<backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
> > James Ward wrote at about 08:16:18 -0700 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I'm reposting this as I evidently tried to steal a thread before.
> > >
> > > Since upgrading a very busy BackupPC server to 3.1, it's been falling
> > > farther and farther behind due to disk contention between the nightly
> > > admin jobs and backups which ran 24x7 on the 2.x set up. I asked for
> > > help here and the only suggestion I got was to carve out a window of
> > > time for the admin jobs to run. This is all well and good, but seems
> > > very inefficient, and as I experiment with the settings, the server
> > > continues to get further and further behind. Is it possible to
> > > replicate the 2.x behavior where backups stop, the admin jobs run, and
> > > then backups start again?
> > >
> >
> > While this would not be ideal, could you potentially use 'nice' to
> > give lower priority to the dumps relative to BackupPC_Nightly? If you
> > are using a dedicated backup server you might be able to tune the
> > priority numbers such that the dumps "effectively" halt while the
> > higher priority BackupPC_Nightly runs.
> >
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