Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2009-07-09 12:07:11 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am]: > Holger Parplies wrote: > > I don't think the name is important. It's an implementation detail. You can > > change related config settings and the docum

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 10:39:14 -0500 on Wednesday, July 8, 2009: > Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > > > >> $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = ... > >> The default configuration causes BackupPC to run the BackupPC_nightly job > >> when there are backup jobs which may need to run during the night... >

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holger Parplies wrote: > Hi, > > Adam Goryachev wrote on 2009-07-09 09:24:05 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am]: >> Filipe Brandenburger wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:39, Les Mikese

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Adam Goryachev wrote on 2009-07-09 09:24:05 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am]: > Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:39, Les Mikesell wrote: > >>> Also, as an aside, the process should probably be renamed to > &

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:39, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Also, as an aside, the process should probably be renamed to >>> BackupPC_daily, as it makes more sense to run it during the day when >>> backups are not running. Isn't

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:39:14AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > > > >> $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = ... > >> The default configuration causes BackupPC to run the BackupPC_nightly job > >> when there are backup jobs which may need to run during the night... > >> Comments, an

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:39, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Also, as an aside, the process should probably be renamed to >> BackupPC_daily, as it makes more sense to run it during the day when >> backups are not running. Isn't that right? > > I'm not sure you can make a general assumption about when backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/08 10:39 , Les Mikesell wrote: > I'm not sure you can make a general assumption about when backups are > run. Most places would catch machines that are on all the time at night > but there may also be a lot of desktop machines that are either started > manually through the web interface o

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Tony Schreiner
On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:15, Carl Wilhelm > Soderstrom wrote: >> $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = ... >> The default configuration causes BackupPC to run the >> BackupPC_nightly job >> when there are backup jobs which may need to run du

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > >> $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = ... >> The default configuration causes BackupPC to run the BackupPC_nightly job >> when there are backup jobs which may need to run during the night... >> Comments, anyone? > > Yes, I would suggest decoupling the start time for the > Backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 07/08 11:08 , Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Yes, I would suggest decoupling the start time for the > BackupPC_nightly job from the obscure setting of being the first hour > on which WakeupSchedule is set to. > > I believe it would be much more clear if there was a separate > NightlyWakeupSchedu

Re: [BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:15, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = ... > The default configuration causes BackupPC to run the BackupPC_nightly job > when there are backup jobs which may need to run during the night... > Comments, anyone? Yes, I would suggest decoupling the

[BackupPC-users] suggestion: make wakeups start at 8am

2009-07-08 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
I tend to do this on my installations, because it makes sense for my environments. In config.pl I put: # set the wakeups to 'start' at 8am, # so BackupPC_nightly will start doing maintenance # when the main blackout period starts $Conf{WakeupSchedule} = [8..24,1..7]; Since the default blackouts