John Drescher wrote:
> 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/

pf, available on most BSD systems, can do throttling.

-- 
Dan Langille

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