Prevent myhoard starting more than one backup stream #155
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Multiple backup streams add complexity and instability, increasing load on the server for negligible benefit. It is better to complete the current backup before devoting resources to beginning a second stream.
This also has the side-effect of better handling situations where one stream appears to fail, then recovers, and interferes with a new backup stream: until the first one is finished, a second one will not start, after which the first one is gone.
A "terminated" backup stream (ie: one which is completed, closed or broken) does not count towards this limit; only one which is not yet in one of these terminal states is.