Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling bandwidth limitations

2007-11-29 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/29 07:56 , dan wrote: > not the linux scheduler, the backuppc backup scheduler :) it just counts > days with no awareness of months. also, i cannot know that last day of > business unless it had some interface that you could schedule that. ah, I see. perhaps at some point in the distan

Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling bandwidth limitations

2007-11-29 Thread dan
not the linux scheduler, the backuppc backup scheduler :) it just counts days with no awareness of months. also, i cannot know that last day of business unless it had some interface that you could schedule that. i have good luck with the default linux scheduler. no issues cygwin+rsync wont act

Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling bandwidth limitations

2007-11-29 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/28 08:46 , dan wrote: > i dont know if ditching the build in scheduler is an option for you Presuming you're talking about changing the linux I/O scheduler; which one did you find works best for you? i am currently > using the built-in scheduler but it isnt sophisticated enough for my nee

Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling bandwidth limitations

2007-11-28 Thread dan
i dont know if ditching the build in scheduler is an option for you but i will give a little idea of a test environment i am running. i am currently using the built-in scheduler but it isnt sophisticated enough for my needs. I am having the client initiate the backup with an ssh session. i have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Handling bandwidth limitations

2007-11-28 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 11/28 09:00 , John Rouillard wrote: > To do this, I limit the number of simultaneous backups to 4, and use > --bwlimit 100 to limit the sending rsync speed. This gives us a total > of 3,276,800 bits/sec approx. It can be a bit higher at tims, but > averages out. I've never had good luck doing m

[BackupPC-users] Handling bandwidth limitations

2007-11-28 Thread John Rouillard
Hi all: We use backuppc to perform backups of 70 odd systems at remote sites to our main servers over the internet. As a result we have a bandwidth limitation of 5Mbit/sec that we don't want to exceed. To do this, I limit the number of simultaneous backups to 4, and use --bwlimit 100 to limit the