[Box Backup] backup status check

[Ben Summers]

On 21 Jul 2005, at 09:23, Maarten van Lieshout / Paradigit  
Hoofdkantoor wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We want to use boxbackup to backup our linux-servers. The point is,  
> that should happen only during the non-working hours (midnight).  
> How can I control this? It seems there is no way I can tell if the  
> backup-process has finished, so a simple cronjob to start and stop  
> the backup-process would not be the right solution.

Configure the client in snapshot mode, then use bbackupctl in a  
cronjob to start the sync at midnight.

   http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/client.html
   http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/bbackupctl.html

Ben