BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Afraid of the midnight monster?

2012-11-09 08:56:20
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Afraid of the midnight monster?
From: Jimmy Thrasibule <thrasibule.jimmy AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:54:56 +0100
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 11:08 -0500, Timothy J Massey wrote:
> 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. 

I missed that the first value was to start BackupPC_nightly and I agree
with all the tasks triggered at midnight. So I updated my wake up
schedule to follow your advice.

Thanks.


--
Jimmy



------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Everyone hates slow websites. So do we.
Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics
Download AppDynamics Lite for free today:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>