> Hello, > > Until now I was backing up my servers with BackupPC, everything was > fine, powerful machines, backup at night, life is beautiful. > > Today I started to backup my users Windows computer via Rsyncd and > complaints started to arrive. Less powerful machines starting to get > old, machines getting slow, could not work correctly, Internet slow, > etc... life was so great. > > So, I'm looking for a solution for backups not to impact my users. One > one the problem is that computers are usually off at night. I can limit > the bandwidth via rsync parameters but what about the transfer duration? > Maybe use wake on lan? But I'll have to configure each computer and shut > them off after the backup, not even talking of computers not supporting > WoL. > > What are your solutions for backups to have less impact as possible on > users? > > > -- > Jimmy
We use a set of scripts which do wake-on-lan and (if the system was off) shut them down after the backup. You're welcome to them: http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ 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/
