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

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 <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> 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.

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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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