Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 11/08/2012
10:51:53 AM:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Jimmy Thrasibule
> <thrasibule.jimmy AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wonder if it is possible to wake BakupPC at midnight. In the
> > documentation or on the Internet, they all start at 1 to 23.
> >
> > $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14,
> > 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23];
> >
> >
> > Can I put '0' in the `WakeupSchedule` list?
>
> Yes but since BackupPC_nightly runs on the first entry (1), omitting
> midnight might be intentional to give the running backups some extra
> time to complete. You might want to rotate the list a bit to
make the
> nightly run happen later in the morning when everything should be
> finished.
I second this suggestion. Cleaning the pool
(what BackupPC_nightly does) *thrashes* the disks, pretty much causing
your backups to pause during the time in which this runs. I move
mine to 10 A.M. (by making the first entry in the WakeupSchedule be 10:
10, 1 , 2, 3, ...).
As for leaving 0 (midnight) out: I'm actually
a fan of this. Too many things are triggered at the change of the
day that I never knowingly schedule anything for midnight for performance
reasons. Plus, there is confusion of when exactly midnight is: is
Midnight at the beginning or the end of the day? I've seen it both
ways... So, personally, I simply avoid it.
Of course, I often take this farter and never trigger
things for the start of an hour, even. I usually go with 7 minutes
after the hour just out of general principle. Seeing as BPC can't
start on not-hours (or, at least, I've never tried a fractional hour within
the WakeupSchedule), I don't mind skipping midnight...
But don't let my foibles prevent you from starting
on that extra hour! :)
Tim Massey
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