[Box Backup] [Box Backup-commit] COMMIT r1858 - box/chris/win32/releases (fwd)

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Pete,

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Peter Jalajas, TebucoSafe Backups wrote:

> What I envision is that the first service would run (perhaps for many 
> hours), backing up the files to the first server store, and then somehow 
> the second service would then be triggered to start backing up the files 
> to the second server store.  Do you see a way of using the various 
> bbackupd.conf file and/or bbackupctl options (documented or otherwise) 
> to implement such a serial backup process?

It's not documented yet, but it can be done. Start the first service and 
leave the second not started. Write a batch file or VBS script or cygwin 
shell script to start the second service. Call that from the NotifyScript 
when it receives the "backup-finish" message.

You can also interlock the two services by using their backup-start and 
backup-finish messages to create and delete a shared lockfile, and use the 
SyncAllowScript to prevent one from syncing while the other is syncing, 
i.e. while the lockfile is owned by the other process.

> Thanks again, Chris.  This is awesome.

You're welcome, hope it works.

Cheers, Chris.
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