On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 03:10:13PM -0400, Tony Schreiner wrote:
> On one of my BackupPC setups, I back a lot of data. On occasion  
> things run for more than 24 hours and I start getting
> 
> .... Botch on admin job for  admin : already in use!!
> 
> messages in the log file. I'm guessing that this means that a  
> BackupPC_nightly has been queued when there is already one running.
> 
> My question is, eventually they all run to completion, but is there  
> any value in queueing one up when another is already running? Does  
> running one after the other make any sense?

Just set $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 2; Or 4 or whatever. That way,
BackupPC_nightly will do only a part of the pool each run.

Bye,

Tino, having that setting at 4.

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