On 04/06 10:23 , Craig Barratt wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes: > > > Rather than have backuppc schedule the number of simultaneous backups based > > on a number of jobs; how about having it schedule based on the current > > system load? So if the load is >2 for instance, don't start any new backups.
<snip> > One hack to doing this would be to modify $Conf{DfCmd} to point at > a script that checks both the disk usage and the load average. If > it prints a number XX% where XX > $Conf{DfMaxUsagePct} then backups > won't start. Not pretty, but it should do the trick. I'll keep that in mind. thanks for the suggestion! -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/