All is working as advertised. Turns out that I was a tad impatient,
thanks to Craig Barratt for pointing me in the right direction.
Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
> I installed BackupPC on CentOS5.1 last week and after a bit of a
> struggle with the web interface I have had it running for a week, and am
> very pleased with it's performance.
>
> With that said I do have a small problem which has so far eluded my
> attempts at a solution, it has to do with the BlackoutPeriods.
> If I understand it correctly this parameter sets the window in which no
> backups are supposed to happen, and that is exactly what I want, yet all
> my backups with one exception all take place within that very window.
>
> Thinking that I might have it backwards, I changed one host to the exact
> opposite window and it hasn't had any affect.
> So my question is what am I doing wrong and how can I correct it?
>
> Not sure what info to provide, but here's a snippet from my log.
>
> Any insight/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Pete
>
> This is what I want
> 2008-02-09 03:39:36 pete added BlackoutPeriods to host HOSTA config, set
> to [{'hourBegin' => '6','hourEnd' => '22.5','weekDays' =>
> ['1','2','3','4','5']}]
> 2008-02-09 03:41:09 pete added BlackoutPeriods to host HOSTB config, set
> to [{'hourBegin' => '6','hourEnd' => '22.5','weekDays' =>
> ['1','2','3','4','5','6','7']}]
> 2008-02-09 03:41:57 pete added BlackoutPeriods to host HOSTC config, set
> to [{'hourBegin' => '6','hourEnd' => '22.5','weekDays' =>
> ['1','2','3','4','5','6','7']}]
> 2008-02-09 03:42:45 pete added BlackoutPeriods to host HOSTE config, set
> to [{'hourBegin' => '6','hourEnd' => '22.5','weekDays' =>
> ['1','2','3','4','5','6','7']}]
> 2008-02-09 03:43:40 pete added BlackoutPeriods to host HOSTF config, set
> to [{'hourBegin' => '6','hourEnd' => '22.5','weekDays' =>
> ['1','2','3','4','5','6','7']}]
> 2008-02-09 03:44:20 pete changed BlackoutPeriods in host HOSTA config to
> [{'hourBegin' => '6','hourEnd' => '22.5','weekDays' =>
> ['1','2','3','4','5','6','7']}] from [{'hourBegin' => '6','hourEnd' =>
> '22.5','weekDays' => ['1','2','3','4','5']}]
> 2008-02-09 04:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 05:00:00
> 2008-02-09 05:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 06:00:00
> 2008-02-09 06:00:01 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 07:00:00
> 2008-02-09 07:00:01 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 08:00:00
> 2008-02-09 08:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 09:00:00
> 2008-02-09 09:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 10:00:00
> 2008-02-09 10:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 11:00:00
> 2008-02-09 11:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 12:00:00
>
> And this is what I get
>
> 2008-02-09 12:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 13:00:00
> 2008-02-09 12:00:01 Started incr backup on HOSTC (pid=15232, share=/)
> 2008-02-09 12:00:01 Started incr backup on HOSTF (pid=15233, share=/)
> 2008-02-09 12:05:42 Finished incr backup on HOSTC
> 2008-02-09 12:05:42 Running BackupPC_link HOSTC (pid=15497)
> 2008-02-09 12:05:43 Finished HOSTC (BackupPC_link HOSTC)
> 2008-02-09 12:07:50 Finished incr backup on HOSTF
> 2008-02-09 12:07:50 Running BackupPC_link HOSTF (pid=15578)
> 2008-02-09 12:07:51 Finished HOSTF (BackupPC_link HOSTF)
> 2008-02-09 13:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 14:00:00
> 2008-02-09 14:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 15:00:00
> 2008-02-09 15:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 16:00:00
> 2008-02-09 16:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 17:00:00
> 2008-02-09 17:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 18:00:00
> 2008-02-09 17:00:01 Started incr backup on HOSTB (pid=28478, share=/)
> 2008-02-09 17:09:17 Finished incr backup on HOSTB
> 2008-02-09 17:09:18 Running BackupPC_link HOSTB (pid=28918)
> 2008-02-09 17:09:21 Finished HOSTB (BackupPC_link HOSTB)
> 2008-02-09 18:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 19:00:00
> 2008-02-09 18:35:31 pete changed BlackoutPeriods in host HOSTE config to
> [{'hourBegin' => '22','hourEnd' => '5','weekDays' =>
> ['1','2','3','4','5','6','7']}] from [{'hourBegin' => '6','hourEnd' =>
> '22.5','weekDays' => ['1','2','3','4','5','6','7']}]
> 2008-02-09 19:00:00 Next wakeup is 2008-02-09 20:00:00
> 2008-02-09 19:00:01 Started incr backup on HOSTE (pid=1258, share=/)
> 2008-02-09 19:04:58 Finished incr backup on HOSTE
> 2008-02-09 19:04:58 Running BackupPC_link HOSTE (pid=1535)
> 2008-02-09 19:04:59 Finished HOSTE (BackupPC_link HOSTE)
>
>
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