Thomas von Eyben wrote at about 20:44:05 +0100 on Friday, November 28, 2008:
 > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski AT gmail DOT com> 
 > wrote:
 > > As far as I am concerned, BackupPC scales very well.  I run 200 - 250
 > > clients onto 3 year old single proc, 1GB ram, and (4) 250GB sata disks
 > > in a raid 5.  The limiting factor is the I/O throughput.
 > 
 > How do you configure your clients to make sure that not all 250
 > clients are being backed up at the same time, IE how are you
 > distributing the load?

I assume he uses a (possibly adjusted) version of the default
configuration parameters:
$Conf{MaxBackups} = 4; 
Plus some of the related parameters (as needed)
$Conf{MaxUserBackups} = 4;
$Conf{MaxPendingCmds} = 10;

 > 
 > I am currently planning to evaluete backuppc to back up about the same
 > amount of clients and I  am a little "nervous" of the peak load if I
 > am not capable of distributing the load over the full working day
 > (clients are mainly labtops

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