Re: [rdiff-backup-users] parallel backups

[Keith Edmunds]

I don't (yet) do backups in parallel, although it's on my todo list. 
However, you can greatly simplify your script. You had:

> SRV=(server1 server2)
> i=${#SRV[*]}
> set $((i--))
>
> # Loop through the array and backup each server
>
> while [ "$i" -gt -1 ]
>  do
>   echo "Beginning backup of ${SRV[$i]}"
>   $RDIFF --exclude-globbing-filelist $EX --include-globbing-filelist $IN 
> --exclude / ${SRV[$i]}-backup::/ $BK_DIR/${SRV[$i]} &
>   set $((i--))
> done

How about:

-----------------------------------------------------------------
SRV="server1 server2"

for SERVER in SRV
do
        echo "Beginning backup of $SERVER"
        $RDIFF ...qualifiers... ${SERVER}-backup::/ $BK_DIR/$SERVER &
done
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Keith