<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12 Jul 2024, at 08:34, t.schneider@disroot.org wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Setting the time of day requires detailed knowledge about the runtime of each job.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">But this forecast is not accurate and this means any setting could result in same error.</p><div id="signature" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div></div></blockquote></div><div>Agreed that is a problem with this approach.</div><div><br></div><div>Or you have the code that locks wait for the lock to be freed does that help?</div><div>Are you using flock in the script, then its a easy change.</div><div><br></div><div>You still cannot ensure the order, but you can ensure that they will all run sequentially.</div><div><br></div><div>Personally I encode the rules for my incremental vs. full backup into my hourly backups script.</div><div>So I only have one timer.</div><div><br></div><div>Barry</div><div><br></div></body></html>