Re: [BackupPC-users] host groups; was: feature request: description for machines, searchable

[Carl W. S. <ch...@re...>]

On 03/22 01:31 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> > How do you get a bandwidth availability metric? Short of trying to push
> > data back and forth, you can't.
> 
> Most people would enter a fixed number for what they want backuppc to 
> consume.  Even if you can test it, you don't know if it will stay the 
> same. 

A commercial tool much like BackupPC is Crashplan.
http://www.crashplan.com/
It's remarkably good; and one of the features where it wins over backuppc is
in its ability to throttle bandwidth usage so that it doesn't interfere with
user operations. Admittedly it does this via a dedicated client (which
didn't go very far when someone tried building it for BackupPC).
It also deals well with locked files right out of the box.
 

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com