From 7eb4c6cae4aa4c74fb021fa116154429f89d76dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 00:48:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add a random delay up to 1 hour for db backup jobs so we do
 not have a thundering herd on db01

---
 roles/postgresql_server/files/backup-database | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/roles/postgresql_server/files/backup-database b/roles/postgresql_server/files/backup-database
index 60dc1fd32e..2e14cf294d 100644
--- a/roles/postgresql_server/files/backup-database
+++ b/roles/postgresql_server/files/backup-database
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # Backup a database *locally* to /backups/.
 
+# Sleep a bit so we do not have a thundering herd on db hosts
+sleep $[ ( $RANDOM % 3600 )  + 1 ]s
+
 DB=$1
 
 # Make our latest backup