On 07/08 10:39 , Les Mikesell wrote: > I'm not sure you can make a general assumption about when backups are > run. Most places would catch machines that are on all the time at night > but there may also be a lot of desktop machines that are either started > manually through the web interface or caught outside of the blackout > time because they aren't available at night.
Indeed you are correct, and I considered this. I made my initial suggestion in light of the fact that the default blackout period starts at 7am, indicating a distinct likelihood that backups are typically done at night. I do have some machines which are backed up during the day, but for them, the early morning is a poor time as well. If someone comes into work, plugs in and turns on their laptop, they don't want to be stymied by the machine being backed up (and thereby slowed down) immediately. They typically have backups scheduled for noonish, when the lunch break happens. So I think that 8am is about as good a default time as any, and better than most, for to run the cleanup processes, since it is the least likely time to run a backup. As always, YMMV, but I'm just taking a guess at the time that is likely to be the least inconvenient for the greatest number of people. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/