On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:53:39AM +0800, Daniel Harvey wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 14:04 +0800, Daniel Harvey wrote: > > I've split backups to a particular laptop host into parts as the whole > > lot together takes too long to run, and so never completes as the laptop > > is regularly disconnected. > > > > This seems to work ok, except they often are run concurrently by > > BackupPC. Is there an easy way to prevent these parts running > > concurrently?
Not within backupc itself. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg13698.html for a method that could be used to set a semaphore file based on the realname of the host. I am using that method in production currently. http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/BackupPC-users/2009-06/msg00242.html discusses your use case, but rather than a semaphore you could use just a lock file. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
