Jeff Dickens wrote:
> 
> Kevin Thorpe 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've used the "trickle" command on FreeBSD successfully.  It's a "user
 > space bandwidth shaper". I was trying to tweak the startup script to
 > use trickle by default.  Search the archive of this list for May '08
 > for "trickle".
 >
 > It works on Linux too. See
 > http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle.

For those on FreeBSD, trickle is part of the ports tree:

    http://www.freshports.org/net/trickle/

disclosure: that's my website.

 > That said, this would be a great feature to add to a future version of
 > bacula, especially (at the risk of repeating myself incessantly) in
 > combination with cross-sd migration.

Yes, it would be a nice feature.  Existing developers are already 
heavily loaded.  I doubt it'll get in there unless someone takes an 
interest in it.

-- 
Dan Langille

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