On 11/12/10 4:38 AM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Stephen Joyce<step...@physics.unc.edu> [2010.11.11.1459 +0100]: >> Sure. Take a look at >> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Distribute_Full_Backups > > Hm, thanks for that. I am sorry I didn't find this myself and had to > bother the list. > > Maybe there'd be reason for a "splay" parameter for hosts, e.g. > setting splay to 86400 would mean that a random number of seconds > less than a day would need to pass between schedule of a host and > start of the backup.
You would only want that if you've been down long enough to get behind. When you add a new host, if it isn't already the time you want it to start you can go to it's page in the web interface and click the stop/dequeue backup button (even though one isn't running yet), then put in the time you want to wait for it's first run. After that, the normal scheduling will make the fulls happen at approximately weekly intervals. If you have gotten off schedule you can fix it manually by forcing full runs ahead of time for a few machines each evening to adjust the skew. Just keep in mind that this may 'age out' your oldest full sooner than you would expect, depending on your configuration. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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/