On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 13:09 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > 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...
It's good to discuss features, but I don't think it is productive to discuss features that don't exist on the underlying platform, or are outside the scope of BackupPC. How do you get a bandwidth availability metric? Short of trying to push data back and forth, you can't. Once you have that, how do you limit it? Again, this is dependent on an existing bandwidth control system like TC, or the individual backup tools supporting it (like rsync --bwlimit). BackupPC is just a (very awesome) front-end to the backup tools that do the copying. Not all of those tools have an in-built bandwidth limit system. I'm just trying to limit suggestions to what the developer would actually listen to, or could reasonably implement. Regards, Tyler -- "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." -- Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
