On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:36:50AM -0500, Carl Cravens wrote:
> I can't complete all the backups in a day with a maxbackups of 1.
> It's unreasonable to micromanage the blackout periods for 70+ hosts to
> keep certain ones from overlapping.
> 
> I've coped with the problem, but it's something that an
> only-one-host-at-a-time-from-this-group feature would make a lot
> easier to deal with.

You may also want to see my post for how I dealt with it using an
external queing/semaphore mechanism. It allows one or multiple hosts
from a group to run in parallel.

http://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/20090319212300.GC20683
 AT renesys DOT com/

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