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How to Run Multiple Profiles in One Click

Asked by jean-christophe manciot

Back in Time 1.0.34 in Ubuntu 14.04

Hello guys,

Great job!

I have defined multiple profiles; each of them runs perfectly on its own.
The idea is to be able to run all of them back to back with one click, is it possible?

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Best Germar (germar) said : 		#1

You can write a script which will call the snapshots serially:

#!/bin/bash
for i in 1 2 4 5
    do
    nice -n 19 ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/bin/backintime --profile-id $i --backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1
done

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jean-christophe manciot (manciot-jeanchristophe) said : 		#2

Thanks for your answer.
Another way is to schedule each backup at different time.

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jean-christophe manciot (manciot-jeanchristophe) said : 		#3

Thanks Germar, that solved my question.

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Andy Carver (6-andy-t) said : 		#4

OK, Just to confirm, create a separate profile, schedule for a different time and it will just work?

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Germar (germar) said : 		#5

If you set up enough time between both profiles this will be okay. But if the first profile is running for a long time for what ever reason, the second might be blocked because there can only be one snapshot running at the same time.

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jean-christophe manciot (manciot-jeanchristophe) said : 		#6

Won't the second one be postponed until the end of the first one?

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Germar (germar) said : 		#7

Oh, sorry I was wrong. I just had an other look into source. Only snapshots of the same profile are blocking. Different profiles can run in parallel. So it shouldn't be a problem if the first didn't finish while the second starts.

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jean-christophe manciot (manciot-jeanchristophe) said : 		#8

Nice!

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Andy Carver (6-andy-t) said : 		#9

I am testing now. With a 4 hour window.