Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup limit time range

[John Wesorick]

You could write a wrapper shell script around rdiff-backup like this to start it:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -n pidof rdiff-backup ] ; then

    kill -CONT $(pidof rdiff-backup)

else

    rdiff-backup

fi

and then at 6 AM run a cron job with a script like this:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -n pidof rdiff-backup ] ; then

    kill -STOP $(pidof rdiff-backup)

fi

The first script sees if rdiff-backup is running, and if it is, it uses kill to unpause it (if if is already unpaused, this has no effect/error), otherwise it just fires up rdiff-backup. The second script just sees if rdiff-backup is running, and if so, pauses it.

John Wesorick

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Deal of the Day

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:

Eric Gendron <address@hidden> writes:

> So how to limit backup working time ?

Limit the area being backed up.

> Or how to interrupt a working backup that will continue next night?

rdiff-backup can't do this.

So

  rsync the entire remote system to shadow tree, incrementally when you
  can, and run rdiff-backup locally

or

  go learn about bup (not obviously ok to use right now, but I find it
  interesting)

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