Here's what I use. It makes niceness 90 and sets disk priority to idle. $sshPath -q -x -l root $host /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c3 $rsyncPath $argList+
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Given that my home server is a bit underpowered and used for other > things, > > I would like to nice backups to run at lower priority. > > > > Is the best place just to prepend 'nice -n' to the beginning of > > $Conf{RsyncClientCmd}? (assuming I am using rsync method). > > > > More generally, it might be a nice feature to be able to define a > > 'nice' level globally for BackupPC in the config file. > > Usually there's more of a problem with disk contention than CPU so nice > probably > won't help much. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and > easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >
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