Re: [rdiff-backup-users] found too many current mirror incs

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:42:51AM -0500, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> How long does rdiff-backup "generally" take to complete on your system? 
> (use the --print-statistics) option.
> Then, set your backup to run automatically in a time interval greater than 
> that. For example, on my system it takes about 15 minutes. Therefore, if I 
> wanted backups all the time, I would set it to run every 20 or 30 minutes.

Or: 
 - make your script use a lockfile and skip running if the lock is held

Or:
 - run in a loop which sleep for 60 seconds between runs

Or:
 - use incrond to activate rdiff-backup only when files actually change,
   and use IN_NO_LOOP to prevent it from going off more than once at a time
   (and/or wrapper script to prevent it happening more than once a minute)

http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en


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