On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
<chrome AT real-time DOT com> wrote:
> On 09/15 04:49 , Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Perhaps you could start a run manually when going to lunch or some other
>> known slack time.  Or maybe the bulk of files could be moved to an
>> always-on server and mapped back to this machine for access.
>
> I have a couple of client locations where I use cron jobs to force a backup
> of people's laptops to take place at noon or whatever other time the user
> tends to go to lunch or a meeting. It's not a great solution, but it does
> work.
>
> Crashplan (http://b3.crashplan.com/landing/index.html) is kind of nice in
> that it can automatically throttle its disk and CPU usage so the user isn't
> impacted as adversely as they would be by backuppc. (One can set up a
> bandwidth limit in rsync, but it's not dynamic according to available
> cycled).

Does cygwin support 'nice' levels[1]? Or maybe even 'ionice'[2]? That
may be one way of keeping the user from feeling the backup load.

Richard

[1] http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_nice.htm
[2] http://friedcpu.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/why-arent-you-using-ionice-yet/

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