Need an option to disable snapshots while on battery

[Ryan Thompson]

Making frequent snapshots is not an effective use of battery power. There should be an option to disable snapshots except when the computer is plugged in. A checkbox on the schedule tab would be fine.

[Ryan Thompson (rct86)]

Incidentally, this can easily be set up in the crontab, by changing it to something like this:

*/5 * * * * if on_ac_power; then nice -n ionice -c3 19 /usr/bin/backintime --backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1; fi

[Cyberdude (gabor-sunseaker)]

I agree. It would be nice if this was a check box within BiT GUI.

[Ryan Thompson (rct86)]

Correction: that should be:

*/5 * * * * if on_ac_power; then nice -n 19 ionice -c3 /usr/bin/backintime --backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1; fi

[Richard Bailey (rmjb)]

Some systems don't return the proper status for 'on_ac_power'. This is something that has to be kept in mind.

So far my system always says it's not on A/C power.

[Richard Bailey (rmjb)]

I'm working on a patch for this feature.