[Dirvish] Tips for low-bandwidth backups

[Asheesh Laroia]

I have one server whose upload speed is only about 40 KB/s.  I want to 
back it up to a remote server despite the slow link.  I want to start by 
asking generally: Does anyone have any tips for this sort of slow 
scenario?

I have had a few problems.  First of all, the SSH connection would keep 
getting reset by peer, but I've solved that with "ServerAliveInterval 3" 
in the ~/.ssh/config.

The big problem I'm having is that while an incremental backup job for 
2007-08-01 is running, 24 hours will pass and dirvish will start the 
2007-08-02 job, and so on, meaning that they'll now compete with each 
other.  I thought I could hack around this by setting the cron job to just 
fire every week, but apparently even that's not long enough for a full 
backup job to finish.  Once the really big one finishes, they'll probably 
go back to taking less than a day each again.

I can live with these weeks-long connections when necessary, but my 
question is: How can I get dirvish to not start a new job while the same 
backup job is already running successfully (albeit slowly)?

Thanks!

-- Asheesh.

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