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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting temporarily suspend crontab Post 302344752 by peterro on Monday 17th of August 2009 01:07:35 PM
Old 08-17-2009
You could...

Code:
0 3 * * * [ ! -f /some/lock_file ] && /path/to/backup/script

The operators would then have a script that would create/remove the lock file (where they have permissions to write). You could also implement that lock file logic into the backup script.

The danger in all of this is that if someone forgets to re-enable the backup script, backups won't be performed. I suppose you could also implement another job that would remove any lock file older than say 3 days.
 

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PERF-LOCK(1)							    perf Manual 						      PERF-LOCK(1)

NAME
perf-lock - Analyze lock events SYNOPSIS
perf lock {record|report|script|info} DESCRIPTION
You can analyze various lock behaviours and statistics with this perf lock command. 'perf lock record <command>' records lock events between start and end <command>. And this command produces the file "perf.data" which contains tracing results of lock events. 'perf lock report' reports statistical data. 'perf lock script' shows raw lock events. 'perf lock info' shows metadata like threads or addresses of lock instances. COMMON OPTIONS
-i, --input=<file> Input file name. (default: perf.data unless stdin is a fifo) -v, --verbose Be more verbose (show symbol address, etc). -D, --dump-raw-trace Dump raw trace in ASCII. REPORT OPTIONS
-k, --key=<value> Sorting key. Possible values: acquired (default), contended, wait_total, wait_max, wait_min. INFO OPTIONS
-t, --threads dump thread list in perf.data -m, --map dump map of lock instances (address:name table) SEE ALSO
perf(1) perf 06/30/2014 PERF-LOCK(1)
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