On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chr...@real-time.com> wrote: > On 09/15 04:49 , Les Mikesell wrote: >> Perhaps you could start a run manually when going to lunch or some other >> known slack time. Or maybe the bulk of files could be moved to an >> always-on server and mapped back to this machine for access. > > I have a couple of client locations where I use cron jobs to force a backup > of people's laptops to take place at noon or whatever other time the user > tends to go to lunch or a meeting. It's not a great solution, but it does > work. > > Crashplan (http://b3.crashplan.com/landing/index.html) is kind of nice in > that it can automatically throttle its disk and CPU usage so the user isn't > impacted as adversely as they would be by backuppc. (One can set up a > bandwidth limit in rsync, but it's not dynamic according to available > cycled).
Does cygwin support 'nice' levels[1]? Or maybe even 'ionice'[2]? That may be one way of keeping the user from feeling the backup load. Richard [1] http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_nice.htm [2] http://friedcpu.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/why-arent-you-using-ionice-yet/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/