[Dirvish] Backup multiple server at the same time

[Dave Howorth]

Red Mop wrote:
> On Friday 08 February 2008 09:34:28 am Jarkko Ypäjä wrote:
> In your case, I would make a single cron entry for dirvish-expire at, say, 
> 8pm , then at 9pm or so, run 'dirvish --vault (vaultname) for each vault.  I 
> would avoid trying to run more than one vault at a time on any given backup 
> client to prevent disk thrashing and to minimize resource usage.

In general, you don't want to use separate cron jobs for dirvish-expire
and dirvish / dirvish-runall. You almost always want to guarantee that
the two do not run at the same time and the easiest way to do that is to
run them sequentially in a single cron job.

You *can* have multiple separate scripts for different vaults, but do
all the tasks associated with each vault in a single script.

Cheers, Dave