Re: [BackupPC-users] Blackout-periods not working?
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From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 2:30 PM
To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Blackout-periods not working?
How come a scheduled full backup just started for me, despite though I
have
a blackout-period set from 0800 1800hrs Monday Friday?
This shouldn't happen if I understood the documentation right.
Did you see the section about $Conf{BlackoutGoodCnt}? The blackout periods
only
apply to targets that are known to be on and available outside of the
blackout.
Did see that, it didn't register over here though... Thanks for the hint.
Seems like the full backups are running ok now.
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