On (15/12/05 12:42), Graham Smith wrote: > Hi, > > This is perhaps one of the stranger questions to be asked but I'm looking for > a utility that will copy a file slowly. > > Part of my ad hoc backup system is to copy the nightly backup tar file from > our production machine onto another machine. The problem is that the > production machine is not exactly what you would call high performance and > the file copy basically causes everything else to grind to a halt. It doesn't > matter to me that the copy is done in 5 minutes or 50 minutes what matters is > that it doesn't kill the server for 5 minutes a day. > > What I am basically looking for is a version of cp with a max copy rate > argument. I would write my own but I can't believe that I'm the only one who > has ever wanted this feature so I suspect there is one already in existence. > Have you tried rsync? It may not alleviate the slowdown of the production machine but it would shorten the time of transfer; rsync only copies changed files.
It would however require backing up the files themselves rather the tarfile. I put up some notes on backing up a file server using rsync with some links I found really useful: http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/FileServer_Install_manual.html Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
