Specify order of hosts when backing up.

[senji-rsbackup]

Would it be possible to have an option to specify the order in which hosts are backed up? Currently they appear to be backed up in alphabetical order of host; so this could be done by strategic selection of host names (but that would reduce the utility of the host name being the hostname). Some of my backed up hosts are outside of my local LAN and I would like to maximize the chance that they get backed up during my cheap "overnight" download period.

[ewxrjk]

Would a numeric priority field suffice?

[senji-rsbackup]

Yes.

[ewxrjk]

It seems natural for volumes to have priorities in the same way that hosts do.
But that raises the question of how to compare volumes between different hosts. i.e. are volumes ordered within their owning hosts, or are all volumes ordered without reference to the host that owns them?
I don't have any clear prejudices about this (other than the former option is a little more convenient to implement). Does your use case offer any guidance?