On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:36:50AM -0500, Carl Cravens wrote: > I can't complete all the backups in a day with a maxbackups of 1. > It's unreasonable to micromanage the blackout periods for 70+ hosts to > keep certain ones from overlapping. > > I've coped with the problem, but it's something that an > only-one-host-at-a-time-from-this-group feature would make a lot > easier to deal with.
You may also want to see my post for how I dealt with it using an external queing/semaphore mechanism. It allows one or multiple hosts from a group to run in parallel. http://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/20090319212300.gc20...@renesys.com/ -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Dyn Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ 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/
