How hard would it be to implement something that balances when full backups are done?
BackupPC is perfecly happy doing full backups of most hosts one night, and no full backups the next night. Amanda, as an example, tries to balance full backups so about the same amout of data is backed up each night. With amanada, this is mostly to optimize tape usage. It would be useful for BackupPC when you are backing up a lot of hosts and want to limit backups to only nighttime. Right now, I have a night where a bunch of full backups occur and on that night some incrementals get skipped because there just isn't enough time. I could adjust in manually by forcing fulls of some of the hosts, but that is a pain. Besides, power outages and such will tend to cluster the full backups together so it would require periodic adjustment. It would be really nice to have the full backups spread out automatically. Dan ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
