Hi,

This option would be very useful. As a workaround we have been using
successfully:

/etc/backuppc/config.pl:

do "/etc/backuppc/external-control.pl";



Our control script:

BACKUPPC_CTRL_CONF="/etc/backuppc/external-control.pl"
BACKUPPC_CTRL_DISABLE='$Conf{BackupsDisable} = 2;'
BACKUPPC_CTRL_ENABLE='$Conf{BackupsDisable} = 0;'
BACKUPPC_RELOAD_CMD="su backuppc -c
'/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg server reload'"

function disable_backup() {
        echo "Disabling  backuppc dump runs."
        echo "$BACKUPPC_CTRL_DISABLE" > $BACKUPPC_CTRL_CONF
        eval $BACKUPPC_RELOAD_CMD
}

function enable_backup() {
        echo "Enabling backuppc dump runs"
        echo "$BACKUPPC_CTRL_ENABLE" > $BACKUPPC_CTRL_CONF
        eval $BACKUPPC_RELOAD_CMD
}


Best regards,

Pavel.


Robin Lee Powell napsal(a):
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:29:12PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 2/12/11 9:46 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>>> Would be Soooooo handy.
>> But what would it mean?  And what if one or more of the targets is
>> unavailable and you never stop the retries and thus never finish?
> 
> I mean finish all *currently running* backups, and do not start any
> others at all.  If one currently running ends in failure, that's
> fine; don't retry.
> 
> The point is to reach the server-off state without losing the 12
> hours spent on the current backup, or whatever.
> 
> -Robin
> 


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