On 11/12/10 4:38 AM, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Stephen Joyce<stephen AT physics.unc DOT edu>  [2010.11.11.1459 
> +0100]:
>> Sure. Take a look at
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Distribute_Full_Backups
>
> Hm, thanks for that. I am sorry I didn't find this myself and had to
> bother the list.
>
> Maybe there'd be reason for a "splay" parameter for hosts, e.g.
> setting splay to 86400 would mean that a random number of seconds
> less than a day would need to pass between schedule of a host and
> start of the backup.

You would only want that if you've been down long enough to get behind.  When 
you add a new host, if it isn't already the time you want it to start you can 
go 
to it's page in the web interface and click the stop/dequeue backup button 
(even 
though one isn't running yet), then put in the time you want to wait for it's 
first run.  After that, the normal scheduling will make the fulls happen at 
approximately weekly intervals.  If you have gotten off schedule you can fix it 
manually by forcing full runs ahead of time for a few machines each evening to 
adjust the skew.  Just keep in mind that this may 'age out' your oldest full 
sooner than you would expect, depending on your configuration.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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