Hi
I thought that the blackout period meant that no _*backups*_ would take place. So in my example, backuppc wakes up every hour but doesn’t backup between 6-23 but the nightly would run at 8? Best regards Jamie *From:* Christian Völker via BackupPC-users < [email protected]> *Sent:* 14 November 2025 10:56 *To:* [email protected] *Cc:* Christian Völker <[email protected]> *Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] Nightly routine running at the same time as backups Hi, as you worded: it is not critical. Obviously, it might affect performance. No curruption in case they run in parallel. You should schedule it to a time when backups only run rarely. Possibly not at the same time when most backups start. So for your case with the blackout period from 6-23 I would prefer to have the BackupPC_nightly run at 5 (when most backups are done through the night). So your first entry there should be "5". I am unsure how the WackeupSchedule and the blackout periods work together. >From my point your current settings do not match each other... I guess the blackout period overwrites the wakeups... However, set it to 5 and in most cases there should be no backup in parallel (as long as your backup windows has enough slots to backup all scheduled hosts). /Christian Am 14.11.25 um 11:35 schrieb Jamie Burchell via BackupPC-users: Hi >From the way that is worded, it sounds like having BackupPC_nightly running at the same time as backups is not a critical issue but possibly undesirable. Maybe due to performance reasons? Or is my data silently being corrupted? Maybe it would explain why I’m sometimes getting missing pool files? I have a blackout period between “6 – 23”, so I have now set my wakeup schedule to “8, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23”. I’m assuming this is the approach I need to take? Thanks Jamie *From:* Christian Völker via BackupPC-users < [email protected]> *Sent:* 14 November 2025 09:38 *To:* [email protected] *Cc:* Christian Völker <[email protected]> *Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] Nightly routine running at the same time as backups Hi, from documentation: The first entry of $Conf{WakeupSchedule} <https://backuppc42.knebb.de/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_wakeupschedule_> is when BackupPC_nightly is run. You might want to re-arrange the entries in $Conf{WakeupSchedule} <https://backuppc42.knebb.de/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#_conf_wakeupschedule_> (they don't have to be ascending) so that the first entry is when you want BackupPC_nightly to run (eg: when you don't expect a lot of regular backups to run). So there is your solution... Greetings /Christian Am 14.11.25 um 08:25 schrieb Jamie Burchell via BackupPC-users: Hi all According to the status page at 01:00, the two nightly jobs ran at the same time as a handful of backups. Is it safe/normal for the nightly routine to run at the same time as backups? Thanks in advance Jamie _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
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