You can throttle rsync with --bwlimit, unless you would need to use the 
entire bandwidth to finish in your time window.


Mike Eggleston wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, John Drescher might have said:
>
>   
>>> I'm using bacula for servers but the problem is that both servers and where
>>> bacula runs are on the same room. I'd like to know how to implement a
>>> duplication of the data bacula stores in order to put a copy on another
>>> location (via internet). Of course it is not possible to copy simply the
>>> backup file because it is too big.
>>>       
>> One suggestion. Make the volumes smaller. 1 to 10GB should be fine.
>> Then use rsync (possibly run from a cron job) to send the volumes
>> offsite.
>>
>> John
>>     
>
> My bacula setup is pulling the remote files to on disk volumes that
> are 5GB each. I have a final job that looks for what disk volumes have
> changed from the previous backup and writes those volumes to tape.
>
> I could use rsync(1) to copy the 5GB volumes to another server and did
> consider copying those disk volumes over the net to a remote location. I
> decided against this approach as the rsync(1) would consume my entire
> bandwidth. Not a bad solution for incrementals, but not good for fulls.
>
> Mike
>
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