Add an exclusive lock to be sure we correctly count the number of running backups

This also ensure only one LVM snapshot is created at a time, which is a good thing to prevent overloading the system

README

@@ -47,9 +47,10 @@ Keep the lock file present after the dump
 virt-backup --dump --vm=devsrv --snapsize=10G --keep-lock
 
 
-Backup devsrv, and disable LVM snapshots
+Backup devsrv, and disable LVM snapshots. Also fails if
+there's already 2 backups running
 
-virt-backup --dump --vm=devsrv --no-snapshot
+virt-backup --dump --max-backups=2 --vm=devsrv --no-snapshot
 
 
 Backup mail01, and enable debug (verbose output)

virt-backup

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ use Sys::Virt;
 use Getopt::Long;
 use File::Copy;
 use File::Spec;
+use LockFile::Simple;
 
 # Set umask
 umask(022);
@@ -231,6 +232,15 @@ our $libvirt = $libvirt1;
 
 print "\n" if ($opts{debug});
 
+# Acquire an exclusive lock so we can ensure only one copy
+# of virt-backup can run at a time
+my $locker = LockFile::Simple->make(
+  -max   => 20,
+  -delay => 1
+);
+print "Trying to acquire an exclusive lock\n" if ($opts{debug});
+die "Can't acquire exclusive lock" unless $locker->lock($opts{lockdir} . '/virt-backup');
+
 foreach our $vm (@vms){
     # Create a new object representing the VM
     print "Checking $vm status\n\n" if ($opts{debug});
@@ -280,6 +290,9 @@ foreach our $vm (@vms){
     }
 }
 
+print "Releasing exclusive lock\n" if ($opts{debug});
+$locker->unlock($opts{lockdir} . "/virt-backup");
+exit 0;
 
 ############################################################################
 ##############                FUNCTIONS                 ####################

virt-backup.spec

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Requires: util-linux
 Requires: lzop, bzip2, gzip, xz
 Requires: perl(Sys::Virt) => 0.2.3
 Requires: perl(XML::Simple)
+Requires: perl(LockFile::Simple)
 Requires: fuse-chunkfs
 
 AutoReq: no