[BackupPC-users] Jeff, script question (was Re: How to run night manually?)

[Robin L. P. <rlp...@di...>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:08:17AM +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> >-----Original Message----- From: Robin Lee Powell
> >[mailto:rlp...@di...] Sent: Monday, September 20,
> >2010 3:47 AM To: sor...@or...; General list for user
> >discussion, questions and support Subject: How to run night
> >manually?
> >
> >On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:48:55PM +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> >> Wasn't there a gotcha' running the nightly cleanup manually?
> >
> >Was there?  I'd very much like to hear about it.
> >
> >What's the right way to do that?
> 
> I based my comment on the warning(s) given in the
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=How_to_delete_backups
> wiki article. You might find more articles of use to you on
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=BackupPC_nightly&go=Go.

Oooh,
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=BackupPC_FixLinks
looks very nifty!

My question is (for Jeff, really): when you run nightly via the
server like that, does it respect MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs and
BackupPCNightlyPeriod ?  I wanted to force a "do everything, please"
run.

-Robin

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