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Re: default setup for backup is missing



On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 04:00:10PM +0100, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
> 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 

s/Squid/Squeeze

> /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. 

The change seems to have happened with svn r75381. 

Wolfgang

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