Re: [BackupPC-devel] Backup PC 4.0 Request

2011-03-07 Thread John Rouillard
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 04:48:57PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > It seems like there are two factors we are trying to capture > - Relative resource intensity of each client backup > - Interactions between subsets of clients > > It seems like we may need a concept both of 'grouping' and 'reso

Re: [BackupPC-devel] Backup PC 4.0 Request

2011-03-04 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 14:47:34 -0600 on Friday, March 4, 2011: > On 3/4/2011 1:56 PM, Dan Pritts wrote: > > > > On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:25 PM, David Birnbaum wrote: > > > >> Craig, > >> > >> I realize a lot's gone into your thinking for 4.0 - I was wondering if it > >> would be possibl

Re: [BackupPC-devel] Backup PC 4.0 Request

2011-03-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/4/2011 1:56 PM, Dan Pritts wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:25 PM, David Birnbaum wrote: > >> Craig, >> >> I realize a lot's gone into your thinking for 4.0 - I was wondering if it >> would be possible to offer some sort of "cost" parameter to the host >> configuration. Specifically, we hav

Re: [BackupPC-devel] Backup PC 4.0 Request

2011-03-04 Thread Dan Pritts
On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:25 PM, David Birnbaum wrote: > Craig, > > I realize a lot's gone into your thinking for 4.0 - I was wondering if it > would be possible to offer some sort of "cost" parameter to the host > configuration. Specifically, we have local hosts (backing up via a Along similar

[BackupPC-devel] Backup PC 4.0 Request

2011-03-02 Thread David Birnbaum
Craig, I realize a lot's gone into your thinking for 4.0 - I was wondering if it would be possible to offer some sort of "cost" parameter to the host configuration. Specifically, we have local hosts (backing up via a 1GB Ethernet connection) and remote hosts (often backing up at 1M or 768k t