Answer to No. 1 question:    Yes.
Answer to No. 2 question:    Part 1: Because ten hours is, in my case, 
sufficient time for it to have safely completed it's tasks.    Part 2: 
Been backing up my four computers like this since January, 2011. Had a 
completed backup everyday for each computer.

I have a small system. If I had, for example, 10 computers to backup, I 
would let backuppc server run all the time, backup during the night 
(like I do now) and all would be great. But, like I said, I'm small, so 
. . . .

Now I just need to get my clients to shutdown when they have completed 
their backup, hum . . . . next project!

Robert Wooden
Nashville, TN. USA

Computer Freedom? . . . Linux


On 09/04/2011 08:43 PM, Holger Parplies wrote:
>
> 1. Is BackupPC_nightly getting a chance to run (regularly)?
> 2. Supposing you are automatically shutting down your BackupPC server, how
>     do you make sure you are doing that when everything is idle? In 
> particular,
>     if the first backup attempt ever fails, will BackupPC get a chance to 
> retry,
>     or will you miss a backup that day?

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