[Box Backup] Adaptive MaxUploadRate, Quality of Service
Chris Wilson
chris at qwirx.com
Sat Mar 10 19:12:11 GMT 2012
Hi Achim,
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Achim J. Latz wrote:
>> Ideally, I would like to determine the existing bandwidth not only once at
>> install time, but dynamically every time (at least) bbackupd starts a
>> backup process. For instance, think about a laptop user that uses the same
>> machine in the office (10MB+ SDSL or fibre), home (ADSL) and 3G: three
>> rather different upload rate scenarios.
>>
>> SyncAllowScript seems like the natural place to do this (via the same timed
>> wget POST request), but unfortunately updating MaxUploadRate has no effect
>> on the currently running, about-to-start-backing-up bbackupd instance.
>
> I could add an optional second parameter output from the SyncAllowScript
> that, if present, overrides the current MaxUploadRate.
I've added that feature in trunk.
Cheers, Chris.
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