On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 05:14:51PM +0000, Keith Edmunds wrote: > I need to be able to stop backups running during the working day. > I'm aware of BlackoutPeriods and, mostly, that manages to achieve > what I need. However, there are times when, for whatever reason, > backups overrun. What I want to do is have a cron job that can run > at the start of the day and: > > - list any running backups
sudo -u backuppc BackupPC_serverMesg status queues I also append: | sed 's/,/,\n/g' | less > - stop them sudo -u backuppc BackupPC_serverMesg stop [hostname] > - notify by email of the actions taken mailx See /usr/local/bin/BackupPC, the Main_Check_Client_Messages subroutine, for all the commands it'll take. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: WikiLeaks The End of the Free Internet http://p.sf.net/sfu/therealnews-com _______________________________________________ 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/
