On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 13:35 +0000, Paulo Almeida wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

> I don't use Windows myself, but would it be possible to link the backup
> to the computer shutdown, so that when a user turns off the computer, it
> first performs the backup and then shuts down?

I really like this idea. But I don't know neither if this possible.

> Would it be reasonable to do the backups during lunch, using backuppc's
> blackout periods?

It could be and it's already like this. However I noticed that BackupPC
doesn't take in account blackout periods for the first backup. Is that
normal?

Here are my blackout periods:

$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [
  {
    hourBegin => 8.0,
    hourEnd   => 12.5,
    weekDays  => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
  },
  {
    hourBegin => 14.0,
    hourEnd   => 16.5,
    weekDays  => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
  },
];

> There may be other solutions, outside the scope of backuppc, like
> traffic shaping and throttling processes.

I'm also thinking about this. But one other side effect is disk I/O
usage when making a backup.

> Cheers,
> Paulo

Cheers,
Jimmy



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