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I am setting up an rsync backup job on linux (ubuntu 11.10 server). If the backup runs long, and is still running when the next scheduled time comes up, will cron start another instance of rsync? Or will it hold off as the existing process is still running? The content of the job is really not relevant, more a question of how cron tracks jobs, or if it does so at all. |
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Yes they will double up. See here for more detail on how to stop that from happening. The basic idea is to create something that can only be done by one process at a time, and if the cron job can't do it, then it quits. Locking a file is the common way of doing it, as if a file is locked, another process (or cron job in this case) cannot lock the same file. |
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