On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:31:57AM -0400, Tod Detre wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:28 AM, martin f krafft <madd...@madduck.net> 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.
Also you can implement a semaphore/queuing system similar to: http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg13698.html So only 1 backup runs at a time for a site. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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/