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@@ -150,3 +150,16 @@ To use this feature a few pre-requisites are necessary: . $nagios_server must be set before the class is included +Staggered rdiff backups +----------------------- +Because the backups default to running on all hosts at the same time, +this can cause the destination of an rdiff backup to be overwhelmed. +If you set the $stagger variable, the rdiff config will get a "when" +that starts it at 1am plus some number of minutes from 0-59 based on +it's hostname. This assures that each host will always get the same +start time every time the template is generated, and the hosts will +run in alphabetical order. It will only stagger backups as much as +your hostnames are distributed, in most cases this will enough better +than everything starting at once. But if all your hostnames start +the the same letter it might not help you and you might be better +off having the template use a random delay. |