On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:16:33PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote: > I don't know how common this usage is, but in our setup we have a lot of > backuppc "hosts" that are physically located on a few machines only. It > would be nice if it were possible to allow hosts on different machines to > be backupped simultaneously, but prevent simultaneous backups(dumps) of > hosts on the same machine. > > Any thoughts?
If you have a way of mapping the host names to a physical machine, you can use my queing/locking strategy described in: http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg13698.html Create one queue/semaphore per physical machine and have the $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} command exit with an error if it can't get a slot/lock (also you will have to set $Conf{UserCmdCheckStatus} = 1;). -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/