On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:28 AM, martin f krafft <madduck AT madduck DOT net> 
wrote:
> Yes, I understand the concept too, and it makes sense for an office.
> However, I am using BackupPC chiefly to back up globally spread
> machines. There are no office hours really. The only "office hours"
> that exist are for the machines behind my DSL link, because I cannot
> seem to get bandwidth shaping to work properly. Hence, the backups
> should not start during the day but run during the night so that
> they do not affect our normal usage.

Don't forget about rsync's internal '--bwlimit' option. It works great
to keep a single rsync from flooding a connection. The only problem
I've run into with it is the filelist stage is not limited, but the
transfer is.

-- 
Tod

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