[BackupPC-users] Spacing out load on BackupPC server

[Timothy J. M. <tm...@mo...>]

Hello!

I've got a couple of servers that are responsible for backing up a 
number of larger hosts.  For example, in one case, the server stores 
almost 1TB of data stored on a half-dozen or so hosts.  In some cases, 
the data is large and the deltas small (~300GB of data, <1GB in deltas); 
  in other cases, the data is smaller, but the deltas are very large 
(~50GB of data, >40GBB in deltas!).

For some reason, the backups tend to get bunched up, so that the fulls 
seem to be happening on the same days.  I would like to spread this out 
some:  I can't get *all* the fulls done during a single day's backup 
window, whereas when they're spaced out, I easily can.

Is there a way to do this outside of manually starting the backups on 
different days and hoping it stays that way?  I can't think of a way 
without changing the code.  One thought I had was the idea of splitting 
the blackout period into full and incremental periods, or some other way 
of differentiating between full and incrementals during scheduling.

Does anyone else have this problem?  Does anyone have a solution that 
works for them?

Timothy J. Massey