I have added this to the wiki under the "Tips and Tricks" and "User
scripts" headings: "Distribute Full backups of your clients over multiple
days".
I've released the code under the GPL, so it may be included in future
versions of BackupPC if Craig desires.
Cheers, Stephen
--
Stephen Joyce
The only thing worse than change simply for the sake of change is
stagnation simply for the sake of comfort. -- Anonymous
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Stephen Joyce wrote:
> I just wrote a perl script (attached) to do this. I'm testing it, but it
> appears to operate as expected so far. I encourage feedback (please send it
> to me directly rather than spamming the list).
>
> I'll add this to the wiki after I've used it for a few more days (and fixed
> any bugs anyone else finds).
>
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Stephen Joyce wrote:
>
>> Due to a hardware failure on my old server, I recently set up a new
>> backuppc server and it backs up about 85 hosts with a 60-day FullPeriod.
>>
>> Because I started fresh, right now all of the hosts' schedules are in
>> lock-step (all got a full the first day, an incr level 1 the next, ...) On
>> my old server I had staggered the fulls so that only one or two hosts got a
>> full each night, while the rest got some level of an incremental. This was
>> a pain to get going--logging each each day and doing a manual full of one
>> or two hosts, but worked great to keep the backup window managable once it
>> was going.
>>
>> So my question is has anyone came up with an automated method to stagger
>> the separate hosts' fulls across multiple days?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stephen
>>
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