On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 02:13:38PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Klaus Ade Johnstad] > > Having slbackup in cron.daily will cause the backup to start at > > about 06:25 in the morning, which, on a busy fileserver, will > > probably not be finished in time for when then the masses of users > > starts logging in at around 07:30, causing the fileserver to crawl, > > isn't that correct? > > Could be. I have not seen that problem on any server yet, so I do not > know how likely it is to happen in real life. Did you see it? How > much data was being backed up in that case? > > > Didn't slbackup use to run from /etc/cron.d/slbackup at 01:00? > > No idea. Yes, from Lenny to Squid the cron job was moved by some reason (?) from /etc/cron.d/slbackup (running by default at 01:00 and the time being configurable via the web interface) to a different script (not configurable any more) in /etc/cron.daily. So now the admin who's trying to change the server schedule via the web interface will run into problems. Wolfgang
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