Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 16:26:28 +0000 on Tuesday, March 22, 2011: > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:47 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Agreed - I've always thought it would be nice if backuppc were aware of > > hosts grouped on a network route as well and could separately limit the > > concurrency within the those groups. Maybe it could be generalized > > with a concept of how much impact a run will have on total concurrency > > (to limit the overall number in a way that might differ depending on the > > targets) and also within its group to cover bandwidth and other shared > > resource (like VMs) issues. > > That would require too much integration with a bandwidth control system > like tc, or --bwlimit on rsync. But a simple solution would be to allow > host groups, within which you could specify MaxBackups and > MaxUserBackups.
I think it would still be helpful to have a hook that would allow some type of query of bandwidth available. Perhaps most users would never use the hook but having the option to call an external routine and return a bandwidth availability metric would be nice... > Of course, if you have host groups, you could also have inheritable > templates within the group. Which would rock. Why define a custom > parameter for 40 servers, when you can define it once on the host group? > You can do that part now by using links... just link all members of a group to a single template. Alternatively, you can use a single config file and insert your own perl code to add control statements (e.g., 'if' or 'switch' clauses) to set different config parameters based on the hostname... I use a combination of both the above approaches... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ 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/
