[Box Backup] pause backup

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Cj,

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Com Puter wrote:

> I have added a client to my backup server that will take several days of 
> non-stop backup activity to complete.  I have added the client as 
> snapshot instead of lazy and start a sync in the evenings because the 
> backup activity causes too much load during the day while client 
> activity is high (at least now while the client is trying to get a full 
> backup done).  I have added a 'bbackupctl -q terminate' command to cron 
> to stop the backup activity in the morning.. but this didn't work, the 
> backup still continues and the bbackupctl command remained as an active 
> process that didn't appear to be doing anything.  If it did work should 
> this stop the backup or unload bbackupd?  It would be nice if it would 
> stop the backup and let bbackupd go idle.  To stop the backup in the 
> morning I issued a 'kill <pidof bbackupd>' and then it took about a 
> minute or so until it unloaded.  Is this ok to do?

Unfortunately 'bbackupctl -q terminate' does not stop a backup in progress 
at the moment. You'll have to kill bbackupd. It doesn't cause any problems 
except for a slight increase in bandwidth usage during the next run.

Cheers, Chris.
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