Re: [Duplicity-talk] Can one safely run multiple instances to the same target?

[Peter Schuller]

> sometimes i have remote clients that will dump a lot of data to backup and
> will sometimes not finish the backup until after the next daily cron job
> starts and then i'll have another instance working the same
> directories/target. so being able to keep that from happening would be a
> great benefit.

Any objections to implementing a simple mkdir() based lock in
duplicity itself? I say mkdir() because it tends to be extremely
portable under even pretty wonky circumstances.

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/ Peter Schuller

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