On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:28 AM, martin f krafft <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I understand the concept too, and it makes sense for an office. > However, I am using BackupPC chiefly to back up globally spread > machines. There are no office hours really. The only "office hours" > that exist are for the machines behind my DSL link, because I cannot > seem to get bandwidth shaping to work properly. Hence, the backups > should not start during the day but run during the night so that > they do not affect our normal usage.
Don't forget about rsync's internal '--bwlimit' option. It works great to keep a single rsync from flooding a connection. The only problem I've run into with it is the filelist stage is not limited, but the transfer is. -- Tod ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
