Re: [BackupPC-users] How to stop starting new backup jobs?

[Luis P. <lui...@gm...>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:22, Pavel Hofman <pav...@iv...> wrote:
> Luis Paulo napsal(a):
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 16:16, Luis Paulo <lui...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>> Setting $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 2; for all clients won't do what you want?
>>>>>
>>>>> See http://your_server/backuppc/index.cgi?action=view&type=docs#item__conf_backupsdisable_
>>>>>
>>>>> With web gui select for each client -> Edit Config -> Schedule -> On
>>>>> blackouts set BackupsDisable to 2.
>>>> Luis,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for your help. Setting this option for all clients (i.e. in
>>>> the main config) is perfect, but is there a way to tell backuppc (while
>>>> running a backup job) to reload its configuration (re-read the config
>>>> files) so that next backup jobs already reflect the changed
>>>> configuration? In my experience I always had to restart backuppc.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>>
>>>> Pavel.
>>>>
>>> You're probably right, but I'm not sure you need to reload/restart
>>> backuppc (mostly if you change clients .pl).
>>> Any way, I found this:
>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/bac...@li.../msg19741.html
>>>
>
>
> Hi Luis,
>
> I apologize for late reply, it took me a while to test your solution.
> Thanks a lot, it works as advertised :-) Now our offline-copy script
> disables futher backups, and re-enables them after the external drives
> are fully synchronized and removed from the raid array.
>
> Pavel.
>

Great it works, thank you for replying back.

Could you be kind enough to clarify if
* you only change BackupsDisable directive
* or if you use also the "BackupPC_serverMesg server reload" command

Regards
Luis