On 29 Aug at 18:30, cj <ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk> wrote:
> In article <54f9b39313grov...@orpheusmail.co.uk>,
> Rod at Orpheusmail <grov...@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:
> > Would you elaborate please, as I don't fully understand. (The bit
> > about 'kill' facility that is).
>
> I haven't sorted the best UI yet, which is why it is not in the
> release version. Basically, as part of a job you could list tasks that
> should be killed if running (and restarted again at the end of the
> job). For example, if you have a job to backup your Pluto directory
> and data files, you could include Pluto in a kill file for that job.
> When it came to this job, SyncDiscs would check whether Pluto was
> running, and if so, issue a task close message before starting the
> backup. There would then be no chance of the data files changing part
> way through the backup, and hence the backup of Pluto ending up in an
> inconsistent state. This could be extended to restart Pluto once the
> job has completed.
>
> However, I am not sure whether such a facility would be of general
> interest.
Very definitely yes. I am shortly to get an ARM6X working and it will
need backup. I remember enormous problems with the old SuncDiscs in
dealing with running applications so a sleep and re-awaken feature would
be much appreciated.
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Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org
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