For this purpose I have created a script that users can request a backup (full
or increamental) when time is best for them.

They telnet to the networker server which then sees who they are
and create a temp group so they can make a backup still under the servers
control.

Maarten


On Friday 19 March 2004 17:19, you wrote:
> Is there a way to lower the priority/processing of the Windows backup
> client during a backup, so it doesn't bog down the system so much?
>
> We run a savegroup at noon each day to backup the laptops that people
> take home overnight (when the rest of our backups usually run.)  Some of
> these users have complained their systems become unusable for 10-15
> minutes during the backup, and I wondered if there was a client setting
> I hadn't found to minimize the impact on the system?  (Short of obvious
> things like not backing up the entire system, etc.)
>
> TIA,
> Dave
>
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