Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Is there any way of throttling a backup?

2008-08-26 09:39:24
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Is there any way of throttling a backup?
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Kevin Thorpe" <kevin AT pricetrak DOT com>, "bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net" <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:39:17 -0400
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Kevin Thorpe <kevin AT pricetrak DOT com> 
wrote:
> This seems like a silly question, but is there any way of throttling a
> backup? normally I run backups at night, but occasionally I need to do one
> during the day and it's causing us network problems. I'd like if possible to
> throttle bacula's network traffic.
>

I have read that iptables and tc both can do this but I did not find a
lot of recent examples. Here is one:

http://www.hackosis.com/2007/11/08/linux-router-bandwidth-management-example/

John

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