[BackupPC-devel] Renicing - Feature Request (w/ Patch)

[Bill D. <de...@se...>]

My computer gets sluggish when it's doing a local backup (and a bit 
sluggish when doing remote backups).  I was thinking that it could be 
handy for me (and others may like it as well) to make an option to 
renice the processes launched by BackupPC.

I don't know how to add options, but it could be done with a patch 
similar to the attached one.

This patch assumes that there is a variable called $Conf{Priority} that 
can have values defined in $Conf{PriorityCmd}.  $Conf{PriorityCmd} can 
be defined similarly to as follows:

$Conf{PriorityCmd} = {
	high    => '/usr/bin/nice 0',
	medium  => '/usr/bin/nice 10',
	low     => '/usr/bin/nice 19',
	default => '/usr/bin/nice 10'
	}

where default is invoked if no option is specified.

Sorry, but I've not yet looked through how to add options to the config 
file (it looks like it's just type them in there, but I'm not positive).

Bill