donald.ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com wrote:

Unfortunately, no, 'tar' is not an option, but the suggestion about a dump
wrapper seems to fit our situation.  I will try the suggestion and see what

results from it.

For a complete different problem, I once wrote this quick hack,
called "slowdown".
Maybe it give some inspiration, or you can insert in a pipe just
after vdump in the dumpwrapper.


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#!/usr/bin/perl

# slow throughput down to X bytes per seconds (default = 128k/s)
# Usage:  somefastprogram | slowdown 32k | ...

$BS=shift || '128k';
$BS =~ s/(\d+)k/$1 * 1024/ie;
$BS =~ s/(\d+)M/$1 * 1024 * 1024/ie;

while ($n = read(STDIN, $buf, $BS)) {
        syswrite(STDOUT, $buf, $n)  ||  die("$0: syswrite: $!\n");
        sleep 1;
}

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