On 10/17/05, Alex Schaft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a couple of laptop users that sometimes stay at the office the > whole day. This causes BackupPC to only schedule them after hours, when > they're obviously not around anymore > > Will there after hours status be cancelled once they go home? I'd like > the incremental backup to be kicked in during the next working day.
For the most part yes. BackupPC has a "Blackout period" which is when machines which are normally on the network won't be backed up. This raises the question of how it determines whether or not a machine is "normally on the network" and therefore subject to blackout. There are a couple of configuration parameters which control this. $conf(BlackoutBadPingLimit) is the number of consecutive times which a ping of the machine must fail in order to consider it not subject to blackout. The default is 3, which is to allow for machines to be temporarily down for rebooting etc. $conf(BlackoutGoodCnt) is the number of consecutive good pings needed to consider the machine to be subject to the blackout period. If the last ping to a machine succeeds, it will only be pinged again after $conf(IncrPeriod), which is set by default to slightly less than a day. If the last ping failed then it will be pinged again everytime Backuppc wakes up according to the wakeup schedule, although it might not ping machines when it wakes up to do nightly backup. The way the defaults are set up (at least by the Ubuntu/Debian package installation I use), it takes about a week for a machine to get into blackout status, and 3 -4 hours to be considered out of it. I can say that this seems to work for me. I've got a laptop which I normally leave on overnight (I'm using this all on my home LAN), but when I've shut it down overnight, it seems to get backed up the next time backuppc wakes up. In an organization with more machines to backup, it might take longer to get through the queues. -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
