[BackupPC-users] What's the best place to add 'nice' to backups?

2009-12-20 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's the best place to add 'nice' to backups?

2009-12-20 Thread Les Mikesell
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] What's the best place to add 'nice' to backups?

2009-12-20 Thread Shawn Perry
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 lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Given that my home server