Why not just make backuppc take a week or so to traverse the entire pool
using $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 7 or similar? Also you can use the
rsync option to limit bandwidth so it won't kill their outbound connections
using the --bwlimit=XX where XX is the speed in kB/sec to limit to.
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>
> A customer we're backing up has a directory with ~500 subdirs and
> hundreds of GiB of data. We're using BackupPC in rsync+ssh mode.
>
> As a first pass at breaking that up, I made a bunch of seperate host
> entries like /A/*0, /A/*1, ... (all the dirs have numeric names).
>
> That seems to select the right files, but it doesn't work because
> BackupPC ends up running a bunch of them at once, hammering that
> customer's machine.
>
> I could make those into share names, but I'm worried about running
> out of command-line argument space in that case; that is, that
> "rsync /A/*0" will at some point in the future expand to a hundred
> or more directories and break.
>
> What I want to do is have a bunch of shares like [ "/A", "/A", ...],
> and have something like:
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
> "/A" => "/A/*0",
> "/A" => "/A/*1",
> "/A" => "/A/*2",
> }
>
> But obviously that's not going to work.
>
> Does anyone have any other way to handle this?
>
> -Robin
>
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