> Hello,
>
> Until now I was backing up my servers with BackupPC, everything was
> fine, powerful machines, backup at night, life is beautiful.
>
> Today I started to backup my users Windows computer via Rsyncd and
> complaints started to arrive. Less powerful machines starting to get
> old, machines getting slow, could not work correctly, Internet slow,
> etc... life was so great.
>
> So, I'm looking for a solution for backups not to impact my users. One
> one the problem is that computers are usually off at night. I can limit
> the bandwidth via rsync parameters but what about the transfer duration?
> Maybe use wake on lan? But I'll have to configure each computer and shut
> them off after the backup, not even talking of computers not supporting
> WoL.
>
> What are your solutions for backups to have less impact as possible on
> users?
>
>
> --
> Jimmy

We use a set of scripts which do wake-on-lan and (if the system was off)
shut them down after the backup.  You're welcome to them:

http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/

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