[lug] Throttling rsync

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Thu Dec 22 21:32:24 MST 2005


> 
> >From the rsync man page, off my FC4 system:
> 
>        --bwlimit=KBPS          limit I/O bandwidth; KBytes per second
> 
> Already handled by the tool itself, what fun!
> 
> Andrew
> 


The only gotcha is that it is Kbytes not kbits.  So you'll have to do
the conversion so that you don't overwhelm your connection.  It works
quite well though.  I've used it on a number of occasions.

Hugh




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