Hi, On Thursday 22 November 2012 14:54:54 Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 13:35 +0000, Paulo Almeida wrote: > > I don't use Windows myself, but would it be possible to link the backup > > to the computer shutdown, so that when a user turns off the computer, it > > first performs the backup and then shuts down? > I really like this idea. But I don't know neither if this possible.
If the machines concerned are capable of WoL, it should be easy to either have /bin/true as ping-command and and something around etherwake/"ssh <host> halt"(*) as pre- and post-commands. (*) Or its windows version. > > Would it be reasonable to do the backups during lunch, using backuppc's > > blackout periods? > It could be and it's already like this. However I noticed that BackupPC > doesn't take in account blackout periods for the first backup. Is that > normal? The first backup is very important. If there is no previous backup or no backup recent enough, a backup is scheduled immediately unless you are fast in the gui to block backups for that machine for the needed hours. > > There may be other solutions, outside the scope of backuppc, like > > traffic shaping and throttling processes. > I'm also thinking about this. But one other side effect is disk I/O > usage when making a backup. The main-problem for the machines being backuped up is not the network-traffic, its the disk-io and disk-latency when rsync checks the files and the directory- structure (the same for smb/tar). One of our clients just accepted that every four weeks there is a monday- morning where the machine is a bit slow and the hdd make a bit of noise. They had a fatal dataloss in the past, maybe that helps with acceptance of regular backups. The other clients use diskless thin-clients and work on a terminal-server where the backup runs at night... Have fun, Arnold
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