First, thanks for a great script for automating
rsync. I've been running it for about 2 weeks and its
worked great backing up a remote server with abou
36gigs worth of live data. However, all of sudden the
backups appeared to have stopped their hourly runs.
Got on the server and sure enough, the last 4 hourly
runs were still running. What had happened was a
large amount of new data was put on the remote server
(3gigs worth) and rsync couldn't get the files
transferred fast enough before the next hourly
started running. Attached is my fixes for dealing
with the job collision, which basically touches a
file called active in the backup destination
directory, and removes it as it moves on to the next
job. It's been tested and appears to work. If you
like the changes, feel free to remove the
large "HITECHWIZARD" comments showing the two spots
where changes were made, and incorporate them into
the next release.
Once again, thanks for the great script.
Jesse Jarrell
ribs-2.3 with modifications