One thing to note WRT the effect of backups on users, is that the Windows task scheduler is not (or at least was not) as advanced as the Linux scheduler. It was a lot easier for one resource-hungry process to slow down the whole system. Windows has gotten better over the years; but I suspect there may still only be so much you can do.
The Crashplan (commercial) backup client does have an automatic throttling feature which works pretty well. This depends on having a full-featured client program on the machine to be backed up tho. I know there was work done towards that years ago; but it seems to have dropped off the radar. In cases where limited CPU/disk/Internet bandwidth has caused user inconvenience due to backups competing for resources, I use the '--bwlimit=' option to rsync. This obviously slows down *all* the backups of that host, but it does solve the problem of inconveniencing the user. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
