[BackupPC-users] global "pause" configuration?

[Paul F. <pg...@fo...>]

is there a way to quickly and easily tell backuppc not to do
anything automatically, for the time being?  stopping the server
does this, of course, at the expense of not letting you
browse/restore/etc.  (but at least i can still read the docs.  :-)
i'm looking for the big "pause" button.

the only thing i can find is the setting $Conf{FullPeriod}, which
i can set to -1.  i think this will do what i want, if i set it in
the global config file.  is there a better way?  this seems like an
important setting to be hung on a "special" value of a config parameter.

further, is there any way to see in the web interface that this
has been done, either globall, or on a per-machine basis?  i set
an individual machine's FullPeriod to -2 the other day, when i
retired the machine, and didn't see anything in the UI to
indicate the change.  (i'm also still getting mail about "not
having been able to back up 'oldmachine' for N days -- how do i
turn that mail off?)

paul
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 paul fox, pg...@fo... (arlington, ma, where it's 0.5 degrees)