I have a hand-coded backup system for my photo library that writes to S3. It runs every night at 2AM.
The one feature I have that's important to me is this: it will figure out what files need to be uploaded and then upload as many as possible for an hour then stop.
That means that it runs for at-most an hour a night.
The reason I need/wanted this feature is that I might come home from a trip with (eg) 30G worth of photos. My (cable) internet will upload at around 1G an hour. I don't want this thing to saturate my internet for 30 hours straight. Instead, it backs up a small amount every night for 30 days.
Am I the only one that wants a feature like this? I've never seen it in any other backup system. (At alternative might be to have configurable bandwidth for uploads.)
The one feature I have that's important to me is this: it will figure out what files need to be uploaded and then upload as many as possible for an hour then stop.
That means that it runs for at-most an hour a night.
The reason I need/wanted this feature is that I might come home from a trip with (eg) 30G worth of photos. My (cable) internet will upload at around 1G an hour. I don't want this thing to saturate my internet for 30 hours straight. Instead, it backs up a small amount every night for 30 days.
Am I the only one that wants a feature like this? I've never seen it in any other backup system. (At alternative might be to have configurable bandwidth for uploads.)